(Lockheed Martin)
David Axe, Daily Beast: Military Admits Billion-Dollar War Toy F-35 Is F**ked
Officials are finally admitting the F-35 fighter has turned into a nightmare—but it’s too late to stop the $400-billion program now.
Way back in the early 2000s, the U.S. military had a dream. To develop a new "universal" jet fighter that could do, well, pretty much everything that the military asks its different fighters to do.
But the dream of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter turned into a nightmare. The program is six years behind schedule and tens of billions of dollars over budget. And now, 16 years after the JSF prototypes took off for their first flights, top officials are finally owning up to the trauma the $400-billion fighter program has inflicted on America's finances and war readiness.
In a remarkable period, beginning in February and lasting several weeks, senior officers and high-ranking bureaucrats finally publicly copped to the warplane program's fundamental failures.
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WNU Editor: It may be "f**ked up", but don't worry .... the per unit cost is going down .... F-35 Cost May Drop to $85 Million by 2019 (Military.com).
3 comments:
Didn't the brass state years ago they no longer wanted or needed the F-35?
Congress insisted on breathing life into this zombie.
I wonder if this is the biggest US military scam ever conducted. Surely heads should roll for this, but they won't... because the F35 program's 400 billion cost is likely nothing but a smokescreen for something else...
Nobody learned from the F-111 debacle. Nobody will learn from this one too.
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