>>(F-35) Kill it. Kill it now, kill it dead.<<
Thank God someone else sees how mission creep has destroyed what was, in the beginning, a heck of a good idea. I was an enthusiastic supporter of the JSF back when but I saw the costs going up and capabilities going down, almost 1:1 and could read the writing on the wall.
But here at FR there are many still lulled by the 35’s cool tech.
Price/performance is now soundly owned by the new F-16/18 variants, and no craft have defeated the F-15 in head to head (although the simulations have been tough for it).
Now the death of the F-22 keeps me scratching my head. It really is a game changer but since it isn’t part of a ring-around-the-rosy kumbaya partnership with our enemies at the UN, it was scrapped...(?)
Too many conservatives think that ANY cut on defense strips them of their “conservative credentials.”
Wrong.
There are some programs that are just plain stupid. Talk to vets and they’ll tell you tales of fraud, waste and abuse that costs us tens to hundreds of millions of dollars - for each incident or program they talk about.
If we’re going to get the budget deficits under control, we have to admit that cutting waste and fraud will include cutting the DOD’s budget. By hundreds of billions of dollars... per year.