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Lockheed Martin

Acquired

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The Titanium Plane

There wasn't enough titanium in the United States to build all these blackbirds or raw titanium that they could easily source. The government and Lockheed set up a bunch of dummy corporations in Europe, like European incorporated dummy corporations. They source a large amount of the titanium that goes into the A12s and then the blackbirds out of the Soviet Union. Titanium is so hard that it will damage your tools.

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