Air Force F-35s fly in formation over Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. Photo: Air Force
F’d: How the U.S. and Its Allies Got Stuck With The World’s Worst New Warplane -- War Is Boring
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter was meant to improve the U.S. air arsenal but has made it more vulnerable instead.
From all the recent sounds of celebrating coming out of Washington, D.C., you might think the Pentagon’s biggest, priciest and most controversial warplane development had accelerated right past all its problems.
The price tag —currently an estimated $1 trillion to design, build and operate 2,400 copies—is steadily going down. Production of dozens of the planes a year for the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps is getting easier. Daily flight tests increasingly are hitting all the right marks.
Or so proponents would have you believe.
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My Comment: David Axe does not hold back any punches in this post. On a side note .... if anyone is interested .... my go-to-place for F-35 news is the Eric Palmer Blog. He warned about all of these issues and problems years ago.
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