Article on the rerouted funds:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just found nearly a billion dollars — $934 million to be exact — hidden deep in the Pentagon couch cushions. That money was supposed to fund Sentinel, a $77.7 billion modernization project for America’s aging nuclear missile system. Instead, it’s being rerouted to a classified project.
It’s the same reason why the Airbus 340 was made. Before the extension of ETOPS, many airlines who wanted to fly long routes over water wanted 4 engines, especially asian customers.