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The shocking truth about Boeing's X-32, why the fighter that lost to the F-35 might have been the smarter choice all along

Boeing's X-32 didn't lose the biggest fighter contract in history because it failed, it lost because the Pentagon chose a completely different vision of air dominance! The real story behind this ...
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Boeing’s X-32 was designed to become the F-35 — it was ugly, it couldn’t pass the Marine Corps’ STOVL tests, and Lockheed won

Before the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II became the most-produced stealth fighter in history, it had to beat Boeing's X-32 in the Joint Strike Fighter competition — the most consequential fighter ...