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Who wants to bet they destroy the tooling and then 30 years later we get to spend 10 times as much as then entire run cost start to finish including R&D to get an inferior replacement product with limited production that nobody else wants the President then cancels?
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Like the Orion heavy lift booster rocket ?
ETA: A number of years back I was having some physical rehab work for some back surgery. In conversation with the fellow who was my physical therapist, told him I worked at the McDonnell Douglas plant doing IT for some of the production aircraft. He laughed and said his wife, a petite and very pretty woman, is an engineer and software designer for the C-17 program.
When the Air Force had the initial rollout of the C-17, they did a multi-site visit to give meet & greet and a free ride to some of the key machinists and support staff on the program. At the stop in St Louis, his wife worked her way to the front of greeting line to talk to the captain and asked him about the cargo air drop capability, "Well? How's it work?"
The pilot donned his most charming, "Well, little lady, you see what we do is open the back end of the plane and push out a load on a pallet with a parachute..."
She broke in laughing, "No no no, I helped design the autopilot and flight control software that monitors the shifting center of gravity and abrubt changes of weight of the aircraft to keep it in straight and level flight. What I meant was, how's it working?"