Talk:North American Aerospace Defense Command/@comment-24301892-20151112135414/@comment-24938973-20151112142540

They're still making them aircraft. There's a whole backstory to why HMI owns the two.

Lockheed and Boeing were contracted to build the VF-1 to replace the F-14 and spent millions of dollars on the prototypes. Lockheed was also working on the navalized design of the F-22 during this time as well. During the US-Russian War, the Russian Air Force attacked military factories across the country (including the Skunk Works facilities, the F-18 production plant in Missouri, and the Boeing factory in Everett, Washington), resulting in millions of dollars worth of damage and putting them in bankruptcy. The two companies, in order to save the projects they focused on (the Joint Strike Fighter program, the VF-1 program, the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program, Lockheed Martin's Littoral Combat Ship dvelopment, and the F/A-18 program), sold their organizations to HMI and opened temporary facilities in central Illinois and moved Lockheed's HQ to Chicago (since HMI is Chicago-based and Boeing's HQ is already in Chicago). HMI practically helped two major defense contractors stay alive after they faced this problem.