Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Is The F-35 Fighter Progressing Nicely?



Pentagon's Best-Kept Secret: F-35 Fighter Is Progressing Nicely -- Loren Thompson, Forbes

If you pay any attention to media coverage of the F-35 fighter program, then you know the Pentagon’s biggest weapons program is “troubled” (to use the favored adjective of reporters). Flight tests are lagging, costs are skyrocketing, and overseas partners are beginning to get cold feet. So the Joint Strike Fighter, as it used to be called, is looking like another black eye for the Pentagon’s fouled up acquisition system, right?

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My Comment: Eric Palmer nails it (as usual) on how the F-35 program is NOT the 'Pentagon's best kept secret'.

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