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Can you go into the thought process behind making the [Retaliator] pods instead of actual [variants]?

Ben LesnickDirector of Community Engagement and Online Strategy

So, I mean, it's like actual aircraft. Sometimes you'll have seven different types of F-16s that you manufacture differently for different roles. Sometimes you'll have one base aircraft that you can convert to things easily. So this does not mean that variants are going away forever. It just means that some ships will have this sort of a modular system. And hopefully, the idea long term is that this system will be a little bit more than just every one ship has modules to swap around. Sometimes the modules might work on different ships. Imagine a theoretical medium bomber someday that has one slot for one of these Retaliator modules. It gives us something to build around going forward. There's also interesting stuff that's going to come out of it. But it is not the death of variants, as I've seen some people say.

Reverse the Verse›August 14th, 2015·
Published on this date.16 Aug 2015