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Ignore the X-32's big mouth: The JSF pick was really about networks

Was the Joint Strike Fighter program a jet choice or doctrine choice and have the airframe choose the jet? The defeat of the Boeing X-32 to what was later to become the F-35 is usually seen as loss of ...
Key Points and Summary - While the F-35 won the Joint Strike Fighter competition, its rival, the Boeing X-32, was a surprisingly capable aircraft despite its cartoonish looks. -Test pilots lauded its ...
Boeing developed the X-32 as a technology demonstrator for the Joint Strike Fighter competition. Most aircraft incorporate features that qualify as conventionally attractive. Sometimes that tendency ...