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Trillion-Dollar Jet Has Thirteen Expensive New Flaws -- Danger Room
The most expensive weapons program in U.S. history is about to get a lot pricier.
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, meant to replace nearly every tactical warplane in the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, was already expected to cost $1 trillion dollars for development, production and maintenance over the next 50 years. Now that cost is expected to grow, owing to 13 different design flaws uncovered in the last two months by a hush-hush panel of five Pentagon experts. It could cost up to a billion dollars to fix the flaws on copies of the jet already in production, to say nothing of those yet to come.
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My Comment: After spending this afternoon listing a number of interesting news posts on the F-35 .... we now get the above piece. Sighhhh .... I can now understand why they do not want to scrap the F-22 production line.
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