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Originally Posted by m21sniper View Post
It's a looooooooooooong story, but it involved Dick Cheyney, the Navy, the A-12, the F-14D tomcat and revenge. The lawsuits over the defunct A-12 program lingered for decades.
It was McDonnel Douglas and General Dynamics.

The lawsuits will linger for additional decades. The last ruling was June 1st 2009 where the companies owed something like 1.35 billion and 1.45 billion in interest.

The best quote I remember is "it wasn't a fighter plane it was a train wreck".
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