Between bean counters, the lightweight fighter mafia and stealth, it was tough to do any honest aviatin'. The people who controlled what got presented to congress were all about stealth. We didn't know what that was at the time, they were just black programs. But, those black programs got the development money. Next up were the lightweight fighter mafiosi. Correctly the LWF mafia said they could fight and win against the Sov's newest and secretest designs. But, they were saying a lot of other things like we didn't really need a medium attack aircraft other than the A-12. And all over the place were bean counters. Most of them in uniform I might add. Once honest fighting men and women were now wearing green eyeshades and standing in the way of honest aviatin'. Every once in a while though some good old fashioned honest aviatin' took place.
