PB
>https://thecradle.co/Article/news/18716
The F35 is -in some ways amazing- but in other ways like they phoned it in. The price or the budget could be a cover for other piloted weaponry.
Trillions … the options
A–disappeared, stolen, eaten by dogs?
B–spent on items so secret no word about them not even staffing levels.
Some new weapons are out there. Look at Mayotte 11-11-18 as i recall.
Logistics..
You have to put longterm multi-administration top secret construction or R&D near the engineers and families. Its longterm.
Likelihood is that the longer the period of hiding the higher probability of exposure. Big staffing, big schools, bug food, big water, big sewerage, etc.
So.. you perhaps disguise the whole R&D as if its (just) another jetfighter project? How many years over time and over budget was F35?
Score: very likely.