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   藤井太洋, Taiyo Fujii (taiyo@ostatus.taiyolab.com)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 18:24:21 JST 藤井太洋, Taiyo Fujii

   the nickname of F-45 would be Joker of Ace. I don’t care either one, one thing I want to say that fighter plane represents the end of the Pax Americana.

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     藤井太洋, Taiyo Fujii (taiyo@ostatus.taiyolab.com)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 19:06:49 JST 藤井太洋, Taiyo Fujii

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     @bsmall2 Thanks, I didn't know the Osprey are supported by both parties. So, Joker, Ace or F-47 must be very political one, it would be hesitated.

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     bsmall2 (bsmall2@fedibird.com)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 19:06:50 JST bsmall2

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     @taiyo Another nickname (or phrase?) for the F-45 could be the evolutionary deadend of political engineering. It's a shame that "political engineering" didn't end with the Osprey: I read somewhere that the Marines don't even want it but the Osprey has bipartisan support, like fighter jets, because the parts are made in factories located in the congressional districst of both Democrats and Republicans...

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     藤井太洋, Taiyo Fujii (taiyo@ostatus.taiyolab.com)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 19:18:01 JST 藤井太洋, Taiyo Fujii

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     @bsmall2 Oh, I didn’t imagine that the expensive arms are not for battlefield,but for political power… I got it, why F22 (or F18) was not developed further, those seem good basement but have not extended like older jets well. New toys are good to buy votes.
     Thinking around Russian various fighter jets, they may had done same things, for popularities, even they don’t need to buy votes.

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     bsmall2 (bsmall2@fedibird.com)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 19:18:02 JST bsmall2

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     @taiyo At first it surprised me that the military, the actual professionals, oppose a a lot of the very expensive high-tech projects. But things the latest generation fighter jets, and the very dangerous (for the Marines who fly in research projects like) the Osprey, are funded because the parts factories are strategically located in the districts of key political figures. These high-tech projects are the result of "political engineering": locating the various factories in important congressional districts.

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     bsmall2 (bsmall2@fedibird.com)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 19:19:06 JST bsmall2

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     > Spreading defense contracts across congressional districts, a practice known in Washington as “political engineering,” also needs to end. Lockheed, for instance, claims that the F-35 program has created jobs in 45 states. According to conventional wisdom, it’s this reality that makes the Pentagon too big to fail. Though seldom noted, similar money put into non-military funding like infrastructure or clean energy almost invariably proves to be a greater job creator than the military version of the same.
     https://tomdispatch.com/why-the-pentagon-budget-never-goes-down/
     @taiyo

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     藤井太洋, Taiyo Fujii (taiyo@ostatus.taiyolab.com)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 19:25:43 JST 藤井太洋, Taiyo Fujii

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     @bsmall2 glad to read it, thank you. Joe was the veteran politican, and he expanded the way along past government.
     If he let VP work in his presidency a bit more, election 2024 might got another result.