The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unreported F-35 problems

Re:The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unrepo... by rando444 on Thursday June 13, 2019 @04:48PM (#20178448)

You have a warped view of world politics if you think countries are incapable of making their own decisions and need to be told what is best for them.

That aside, it's more or less common knowledge these days that the planes have not been delivered for all these years due to the production problems they are still having.

Esquire just did a piece just month mentioning that the plane starts to fall apart if it's flown too fast and the computer fails to detect if the plane is flying to fast about half the time.

This aircraft program still has a ways to go.

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Re:The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unrepo... by DuskStar on Thursday June 13, 2019 @06:29PM (#20179164)

> You have a warped view of world politics if you think countries are incapable of making their own decisions and need to be told what is best for them.

We don't know what the "training in the US" requirement looks like, though. I wouldn't be surprised if it was just "you need to use Danish planes to train" + "we only have training facilities in the US, and if you want to bring your own that'll cost money". It has nothing to do with "Denmark can't make its own decisions", because as far as I'm aware that hasn't been alleged anywhere.

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