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A) Whataboutism B) The program cost for the F-22 was 67B. It produced more than "a habdfull of planes", it produced 187. The reason it ended up costing so much (per aircraft) is the development cost had to be spread across fewer airframes than planned. Truncating the purchase to 187 is perhaps one of the greatest military acquisition mistakes in my lifetime.


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