Joint Aircraft Projects

[Grant]

You didn't read all the posts and must have missed: Programs don't automatically get a "Joint" designator. That comes after initial staffing of the "requirement" by a service which includes staffing to the other services for "joint potential designation" as "Joint" or "Joint Interest" or service unique.

Although the ultimate F-22 program had no takers, there were several tries to make it joint and Naval personnel were part of the NATF effort at Wright Pat.

Proposed F-22N
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Oh I know, I meant it "tongue in cheek".

 

[TurnandBurn55]

The nation cannot and should not shoulder the cost of 4 or 5 seperate tactical jet programs at once like we did in the 70's and 80's, 2 1/2 at once is already stretching the budget.

Well, the F(not A)-22 is almost 4 separate tactical jet programs in and of itself....

 

[nittany03]

The skyrocketing cost of government entitlement programs will consume more and more of the government treasury, and a tempting target would be the big fat DoD budget of approximately $400 billion dollars a year

... i am pridem, ex quo suffragia nulli uendimus, effudit curas; nam qui dabat olim imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, panem et circenses. ...

Translation: Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions - everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.