The F-35, once touted as the world's most promising combat jet fighter, is so plagued with massive cost-overruns and poor design that the best thing to do is scrap efforts to make more than 100 of them fully ready for combat, according to the Pentagon's new chief of the program.
Vice Adm. Mathias W. Winter said the Defense Department is considering "leaving 108" F-35s in "their current state" because the Pentagon cannot afford to spend the money to fix the planes, the National Interest reported Monday.
"In total, Congress has authorized — and the Pentagon has spent — nearly $40 billion purchasing approximately 189 F-35s that, in their current configuration, will never be able to perform the way they were expected to when taxpayer dollars were used to buy them," wrote Dan Glazier, a retired Marine Corps captain and expert on the F-35 with the Project on Government Oversight.
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When it came to this plane replacing the A-10 as a close support platform, what did everybody on the ground say?
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A-10 is junk and can't handle dust let alone the sand. Just takes up space. Drones! Drones !
DeleteDo "we, the people" get a refund on the tax money WASTED on a machine that failed (miserably) to live up to the contractual standards?
ReplyDeleteWhy don't YOU try scamming the government (that would be "we, the people") for even a couple of million. You'll be ruined and do prison time.
Lockheed and Boeing executives get a stock bonus and buy their 16 year old a Corvette for their birthday.
And you cheer the people (your "leaders") who make it possible?
What are you thinking?
Forty BILLION. That's a LOT of American taxpayer money. THAT'S what you should be thinking....
Keep cheering.
Think of it as lots of (unnecessary) jobs.
ReplyDeleteFinger pointing starts with CONgress! They were told time and time again NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO by service members, but yet continued with the program. They are priority 1 to blame!
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