Re:The F-35 Is a $1.4T National Disaster (2017)
by cultus on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @05:51PM
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One of the big reasons the F-35 program is such a disaster is that it was intended to be a fighter that could be modified for basically all Western Bloc countrie's needs. This brought an incredible amount of complexity that not only costs more money in and of itself, but became ripe for milking by the military-industrial complex.
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Re:The F-35 Is a $1.4T National Disaster (2017)
by berg01 on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @05:59PM
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I guess it boils down to that - it was built primarily as a vehicle for transferring money in various directions. Not to cost-effectively project military power.
The Schadenfreude part of me is having lots of fun reading reports of the Norwegians' F-35 misadventures though!