The U.S. Air Force’s chief of staff wants the service to develop an affordable, lightweight fighter to replace hundreds of aging F-16s and complement a small fleet of sophisticated F-35 stealth fighters. But an affordable, lightweight fighter is exactly what the F-35 was first conceived to be.
Saw a huge thread in the comments of /r/programming of people talking about the variations of "soviet factory overproduces or meets quotas by doing a dumb thing" like making a single 10-ton nail or whatever the fuck, and boy was it annoying