If A-12 Avenger II had not cancelled?

Given that it was expensive and had many problems, and that there has not much need for stealth aircraft since the Cold War, I rather doubt that it would be built. If it had worked, then we would have been spending a lot of money on high-tech stealth aircraft that are not much more effective than ordinary F-18s.
 
If Cheney (as SECDEF) hadn't cancelled it when he did in '91, it would've been a victim of the cutbacks in '92 and '93. I only wish the A-6F had been restarted in its place...but since CNO at the time was a Sub guy and not a Naval Aviator (or NFO), they had a choice: A-6 or Seawolf. Guess what got funded?
 
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