F35 Joint Strike Fighter (Reuters / Lockheed Martin)
Just Face It – The F-35 Is A “Bomb Truck” -- David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen
Defence Watch reader Rob Dresser has this to say about the recent article I wrote quoting USAF Gen. Michael Hostage on the need for the F-22 to accompany the F-35:
The only thing remarkable in General Hostage’s assessment of the F-35 is that anyone should find his comments remarkable. It is refreshing that the head of the USAF’s Air Combat Command should make such frank remarks.
He is right on the money. The F-35 is a bomb truck. It was designed by Lockheed to be inferior in every respect to the F-22. It was anticipated that the USAF would have a fleet of upwards of 800 F-22s to provide cover for the F-35. President Obama turned off the F-22 tap at just 170-airframes.
What was interesting, and went unnoticed or at least unmentioned in the media, was how the F-35 was transformed into a world-beating fighter with the cancelation of the F-22 contract.
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My Comment: David Pugliese blunt and common sense remarks on the F-35 are a must read. His list of questions that Canada needs to ask if it is to purchase the F-35 are also spot on.
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