Originally Posted by
Less Hair
To be fair Boeing inherited MDD (plus others) so they have more like 1950s experience with very fast jets.
Boeing didn't inherit MDD, they bought it. Probably the biggest mistake they ever made because it seems like Boeing essentially suffered a hostile takeover using their own money.
In any case, that agrees with my point. Boeing has not had a military design of their own enter service since the 1950s, and have never had a helicopter of their own design (except for those 5-6 airframes I mentioned) even fly. All their military aircraft since the 1950s have been aircraft designed and put into production by someone else.
This is anecdotal, but I've seen narratives that said before Defiant, Boeing and Bell discussed partnering on what would become the V-280. When the talks fell through and it was announced that Boeing would not be working with them, Bell engineers cheered.
FWIW