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Americans are a weird bunch, they make some of the most advanced tech that is a decade ahead of the rest of the world, and then promptly ignore it in favor of some still advanced but vastly inferior version because it's a few dozen million dollars cheaper in the long run, then they notice a decade later that said tech needs to be replaced and so they go on another trillion dollar venture
>formidable Company to die like this
Vought and North American were, in my opinion, even more impressive, last one with the Xf-103 or the Yf-107, so was Republic Aviation with their Xf-103