This Week at War: The Jet That Ate the Pentagon -- Robert Haddick, Foreign Policy
The F-35 is cutting into the Defense Department's most important priorities.
Policymakers get 11th-hour second thoughts on the Joint Strike Fighter
The troubled and long-delayed F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program came under renewed scrutiny this week. The Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and many foreign partners plan to buy thousands of the fighter-attack jets over the next two decades to replace a variety of aging aircraft, but the development schedule of the stealthy fighter has slipped five years to 2018 and the projected cost to the Pentagon for 2,457 aircraft has ballooned to $385 billion, making it by far the most expensive weapons program in history.
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My Comment: Throw in the added White House request to cut a further $400 billion from the defense budget in the next 12 years .... the cost and procurement for the F-35 is no longer possible.
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