Man, how many F-22’s could they have had over this boondoggle.
Active Duty ping.
Good thing they haven’t scrapped a buncha old planes yet.
People need to be in prison over this.
The program is six years behind schedule and tens of billions of dollars over budget.
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that’s cause they didn’t ask Trump to be in charge of construction...
The program is six years behind schedule and tens of billions of dollars over budget.
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that’s cause they didn’t ask Trump to be in charge of construction...
You’d think they would have learned from the F4 Phantom program that one plane can’t fill all roles
So it dumped the world class F-22. So typical.
Really it doesn’t matter. Arab countries doesn’t have flight superiority. North Korea? Still using MIGs from the ‘50s.
Daily Beast . . . always has an agenda. Stirring the pot by showing money is being wasted by the military will encourage the “let’s cut the military’s bloated budget” crowd. No doubt there is waste. But this plane is early in its life cycle and will improve with experience. Neither the P-51 nor P-38 were particularly brilliant in their first iterations.
Moreover, no responsible journalist would talk about the aircraft without mentioning the huge role Congress, both Dims and Rats, had in screwing up this aircraft. It seems like it is assembled from pieces made in every Congressional district to ensure largess goes to the appropriate Congressman’s constituents. Navy backers insist on this, Marine backers insist on that, AF on something else, and suddenly the damned thing will hardly fly. Hearings were probably held on why it is not gender neutral and whether short females see can out of the cockpit.
These F-35 articles have become common and other than quoting a new “source” here or there, the articles are mostly the same. Nothing is going to change very fast here. The author is right, though, about us being committed to them whether we like them or not.
I’m glad my family members are not going to war in them.
Now a squadron of nice new shiny F-22’s? that’s a different matter!
A flying computer with 24 million lines of software code. Maybe a bit too complicated for its own good.
Then they should search for old Free Republic threads where some Freepers defended the F-35.
Those Freepers were wrong.
Perhaps they didn't know how wrong they were. Maybe some of them did know how wrong they were, but their jobs were tied to this horrible mess.
Either way, our nation is in a world of hurt come the next war (and there will be one).
$400 billion isn’t squat compared to the trillions that zero has squandered. He has deliberately spent as much as he could on as many things as he could in an effort to bankrupt this country. He has succeeded.
Obama’s fault, literally. At least the military industrial complex is happy. It’s about time we stopped focusing on these mega weapons systems and started focusing on personnel.
This would not be the first time. The F-111 was to have a Navy version also, but the prototype was too heavy for carriers. The ground following radar also had problems and killed a lot of guys. It was called the Switchblade Edsel, because the idea originated when McNamara was Secretary of Defense.
General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark Long Range Strategic Medium Bomber / Tactical Strike Aircraft (1967)
http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=72
How many congress critters made millions on the stock purchases of the companies involved??
I just watched the movie Pentagon Wars. I immediately thought of the F-35.
I think it takes an non-PC Asshat like Trump to admit it’s a mistake, and FIX IT.
Everybody else will just pay 400B$ for a piece of junk.
Do you REALLY think Donald J Trump would sit still for that?
He would embarrass the hell out of folks until he got a “YUUUGGE DEEAAAL”
For those with long memories, during Vietnam, McNamara jammed the F-111 down the militarists throat as the plane that could fill all roles for Army,Navy,and Air Force requirements. It was a dog and it’s only practical use was electronic jamming.