Tell us how you really feel, LJ.
Maybe you can console yourself with the realization that, over the decades, the entire neo-LTA/hybrid community has consumed a relatively tiny amount of government/customer R&D money.
If I had to take a SWAG, I'd say that the total sum is a clear order of magnitude less than the average per-program overrun - that is, costs above the estimate to do what the contractor signed up to do - on major military FSD programs, which would easily be in single-digit billions. Not to mention flawed-from-the-starting-pistol cancelled projects like MRA4 or Comanche.
So if the LTA community are snake-oil salesmen, they're pikers.
Last edited by LowObservable; 20th Mar 2016 at 15:03.