How Not To Buy A Costly Weapon System

The U.S. Navy variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35C, conducts a test flight over the Chesapeake Bay. Lt. Cmdr. Eric "Magic" Buus flew the F-35C for two hours, checking instruments that will measure structural loads on the airframe during flight maneuvers. Wikipedia

How Not To Buy The Most Costly Weapon System In The History Of The World -- Mark Thompson, Time

New study says Pentagon used wrong strategy to buy the $400 billion F-35 fighter

The good news is that someone finally did a study to see if one-size-fits-all-services warplanes actually save the taxpayers money.

The bad news is that the answer is no.

The even badder news is that the Pentagon’s most costly weapons system ever—the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which last week delivered the 100th of an expected run of 2,457 fighters for $400 billion—is precisely that kind of fighter. You, your children, and grandkids will apparently be paying more for it than they should for decades to come.

But despite such grim tidings this holiday season, that’s actually not the worst news in that new report from the Rand Corp. That would be this:

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My Comment: A depressing read .... but not surprising on how weapon systems are usually bought. Bottom line .... government is not very good at developing, managing, and buying complex weapon systems.