China Debuts Homegrown C-17 Clone: The Chinese Air Force launched the Y-20 for the first time on Saturday (as re...

China Debuts Homegrown C-17 Clone

China Debuts Homegrown C-17 Clone: The Chinese Air Force launched the Y-20 for the first time on Saturday (as re...

Good thing our "capitalist" way of designing airplanes is so superior to their stupid old socialist way of designing them. Otherwise it would take us 30 years to come up with a new cargo plane and they'd be popping them out every few years. Well, unless we made the fatal mistake of putting all of our "capitalist" incentives in place such that they encouraged the contractors to drag out the design, then it might take us 30 years or more. I mean, hell, capitalism works either way, right? Of course, we'd never be so stupid as to pay a "for profit" company more to screw us, would we? We'd never be so stupid as to put all of the risk for a new airplane design on the US taxpayer and pay a defense contractor more to screw the US taxpayer than we pay them if they come in with a good, working design on time and on budget. No, we'd never be that stupid.

Full article: http://defensetech.org/2013/01/28/china-debuts-homegrown-...

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PLA debuts first ingenious air lifter, but it is a long way from a C-17 [link]
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