It looks great until the drone swarms get it.
we should be making millions of large armed drones instead of this type of thing.
Get rid of the 70% of the federal government workforce, particularly those who don’t want to come back to the office and don’t renew the leases on all the federal government office buildings that are leased and currently empty and you’ll have plenty of money for this aircraft.
We can’t afford this. $300 million per plane? By the time it is completed, if ever, it will be $1 billion per plane. But no matter. We can just print more money! Hyperinflation here we come.
The President can just forgive the debt and then everything will be OK.
The author’s overuse of acronyms is obnoxious.
American Generals are still living in the WWII model, and the defense contractors are along for the cash.
A $300M fighter, pretty much by definition, is a scam.
Drones are the future.
No one will ever ask the question: Why do they cost so much?
This is a constant story. The Osprey was in trouble, the F-22 was in trouble, the F-35 was in trouble, etc.
$300 million is a life cycle cost.
Using the same accounting, your car costs $100,000, after you throw in gas consumed, repairs, tires, insurance, licenses, etc.
This author, Robert Farley, has made a career of denigrating the Air Force, its mission, its equipment, and its people.
Of course, he has never been in a modern fighter, like a lot of self- laimed experts here on FreeRepublic.
The USAF cannot afford planes or bombers. All part of the historic low 4% of the GDP allocated for the military. Meanwhile, JoeB wants to cut it even lower.
Defense is the only job required of the US government under the Constitution - all other spending is not required.