Is The U.S. Going To Scrap The F-35?

F-35 JSF

U.S. May Scrap F-35, Slated To Be Israel's Future Fighter Jet -- Haaretz

The F-35, with stealth capabilities, is slated to replace an entire generation of jet fighters in the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps; Pentagon looking into other alternatives due to massive cost overruns.

Senior members of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee last week instructed the Pentagon to come up with alternatives to the jet fighter of the future, the F-35, with the project facing massive cost overruns.

The plane has been selected as the future of the Israel Air Force, and for now there are no plans for an alternative if the American project is shelved.

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My Comment: I have trouble believing that the U.S. is prepared to scale back its commitment to developing the F-35. Too much money and reputations have been committed, and any scale back will raise questions about competency that many will not want to be answered. Israel will eventually get its F-35 .... but at a later date and at a cost that many will say will make the F-35 unaffordable to the U.S. taxpayer.