The Air Force should have pulled the plug on the POS F-35 years ago.
“The Air Force should have pulled the plug on the POS F-35 years ago.”
That’s politically impossible because we sucked in our allies to put up money to develop this turkey. Italy has already built an aircraft carrier for their versions. The world-wide investment has been huge. Several years ago, a congressman said we should cancel the program and it provoked a huge international brouhaha.
Incidentally, Turkey was among the fist to sign up. Anything Turkey gets will be shared with Iran.