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MILITARYLOW1h ago · Sep 3, 2026, 4:05 AM

Pentagon puts possible $131 billion price tag on 1970s-era fighter

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The Bunker appears originally at the Project on Government Oversight and is republished here with permission.Did the Navy just get a keel of steel?President Trump designs aircraft carriers the way kids build paper airplanes. It’s just that his cost billions and can inflict far more pain than paper cuts. Nearly a decade ago, he concluded that the Navy’s plan to help launch planes from aircraft carriers using new-fangled electromagnetic-force catapults instead of the tried-and-true steam-powered versions was stupid … apparently based on what a sailor told him. “How is it working?” Trump asked on

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