Even if that's true, the A-10 and V-22 are *bigger* failures, but everyone insists on continuing to use them, despite no longer being effective, if they ever were to begin with.  The modernisation kit for the A-10 costs more per unit than the F-35, that's how laughably obsolete the old hardware is at this point.  Besides, if you adjust for inflation, the most expensive aircraft the US has ever produced was the F-15.  Not that we need to be using these things so damn much anyway, I'm just saying that the old stuff isn't any better.

I'll put it this way: the arguments that "reformists" use against developing better weapons for the military (note that whether or not standing militaries should even exist are *not* part of this argument) are the *exact same arguments* that hoplophobes use against civilians like us owning modern "assault rifles," and perpetuate the myth that the Second Amendment applies only to flintlocks.  New technology scares these people.  "Fudds," I believe @jacobtothe calls them.