Oh yeah. No problem. Let's see....
The factory is a crumbling hulk in Bethpage, gone for 25 years...
The tooling, the mylars, the analysis, everything, gone gone gone (well, Northrop and the AF have the docs, allegedly)
And the people, who are absolutely the most important component, cuz they know where the bodies are buried in the design...dumped. Gone. Dead (really).
Good luck. Seeya in 5 years. And that's just to start up.
The arsenal of democracy has been torn down, dismantled, crated up, shipped out, retired and outsourced.
If telling that truth makes me an evil protectionist, so be it. (Personally I prefer the term “Self preservationist”)
The tooling, the mylars, the analysis, everything, gone gone gone (well, Northrop and the AF have the docs, allegedly)
And the people, who are absolutely the most important component, cuz they know where the bodies are buried in the design...dumped. Gone. Dead (really).
Funny, since Boeing won a $2 billion contract in 2007 to build new A-10 wings.
I guess they're scratching their heads right now and cruising the bingo halls of The Villages looking for retired Republic engineers...