New Wave Of Uncertainty On F-35 -- DoD Buzz
Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey told House lawmakers Thursday that he supports the “concept” of a fifth-generation fighter, but he wavered more than any Pentagon official in recent history in questioning whether DoD can afford all three flavors of the F-35 Lightning II.
Appearing with Secretary Panetta before the House Armed Services Committee, Dempsey said “I’m concerned about the three variants, whether we can afford all three.” In doing so, the chairman took a dramatically different line from other DoD leaders, saying not ‘We must have the jets and we’ll get their costs down,’ but ‘We need an airplane but we might not be able to buy the ones we’re trying to roll out.’
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My Comment: Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey knows what is coming down (massive budget cuts), and what he is trying to do is limit cutbacks in other programs by making sure that bigger programs .... like the F-35 program .... do with less. Will he succeed .... probably .... but the U.S. military will be smaller than what it is today.
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