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The B-2 Bomber is child's play compared to the F-35's 1 Trillion USD program [1], but the comparison to the LHC's pricetag really puts things in prespective.

1: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/29/us-lockheed-fighte...

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Or even better failed military projects, such as the $25+ billion spent on a spy satellite project before it was killed in 2002.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reconnaissance_Office...

The F-35 is not exactly a resounding success: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-22/flawed-f-35-fighter...

It must be a resounding success - the UK is about to commit to buying some - like we committed to buying Skybolt and the F-111 (cancelling the awesome home grown TSR 2 in the process):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_TSR-2

No, at this point we should have built more F-22s for air-to-air. Strange how the "cheap" program is now the expensive one.

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