Lockheed Martin is ballsy as hell!

The Lockheed Martin Unmanned Carrier Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike, or UCLASS, concept leverages technologies and lessons learned from F-35C, RQ-170 Sentinel, and other operational systems to provide intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance mission capability.

The F-35 is limping along.  Numbers are being fuzzed, the tailhook isn't working and they have the nerve to think about the unmanned aircraft competition for the Navy?

That's ballsy as hell.

Lockheed Martin would do well to remember the A-12.  One day it was bullet proof and the Navy/USMC was pushing it hard.  The next Cheney killed it.

The A-12 I did terminate. It was not an easy decision to make because it's an important requirement that we're trying to fulfill. But no one could tell me how much the program was going to cost, even just through the full scale development phase, or when it would be available. And data that had been presented at one point a few months ago turned out to be invalid and inaccurate."
Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, 1991.

This fall.  History will repeat.