Very cool. I don't mind it. Gives the air force a couple of show cars to flaunt around for recruiting. And its great engineering exercises to boot.
Honda has their little robot, Toyota has all sorts of pointless oddball toys.. This is money well spent. Great for company morale, thinking outside of the box, press coverage, etc..
Whats really funny is, when the govt took a controlling interest in GM I was going to photo chop a mil-spec new camaro.. (OD green, serial numbers stenciled, weapons here and there.. Was too lazy to do it, and now they've beat me to it.