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F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash

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278 points Michelangelo11 | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 11:38 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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MaxPock ◴[27 Aug 25 12:00 UTC] No.45038469[source]▶
Who eats the loss under such circumstances?

Government or Lockheed Martin or are these 200 million dollar jets insured ?

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meindnoch ◴[27 Aug 25 12:19 UTC] No.45038657[source]▶
Where did they get this 200million figure from? Sounds bogus.
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ux266478 ◴[27 Aug 25 13:37 UTC] No.45039501[source]▶
F-14D unit cost was ~$74 million in 1988. Adjusting for inflation that's ~$202 million in 2025. It's not that unreasonable for an American fighter jet, honestly.
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1. cjbgkagh ◴[27 Aug 25 14:58 UTC] No.45040617{3}[source]▶
The F-14 is twin engine, 40% more plane and can fly faster. Also the F-14 was considered expensive.

My main disappointment with the F35 is that it could have been a lot cheaper with modern design technology and manufacturing. That and the software is needlessly buggy. I had a friend working on F35 at a time I was working on software quality research, when I discussed the possibility of applying the research to F35 he let me know that bugs were seen as a cash cow and he would be working on bugs on the F35 until he retires. He was right. And now we have stuff like this happening.