jv103 on 16 December 2008
Building the weapons systems would be much more costly, but what if we had like engineers who could actually fabricate specialized parts? My Girlfriend's Dad (who was in charge of a strike fighter fleet -not an appeal to authority here) was talking about this specific part of landing gear on the hornet- it had a fault and developed cracks after several years of use. The company that originally manufactured the part had moved onto something else and couldn't make it. Anyways, they ended up buying a couple hundred units of this landing gear from Israeli manufacturers with a huge markup... wouldn't something like this be better for the military to do? Or is it too specialized that they couldn't possibly maintain certain parts?
