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‘Price tag is the only thing stealthy about the F-35’: scathing new report tears the F-35 to shreds
A great headline from Yahoo.
Yes indeed, the F-35 is a troubled weapons system. Billions and billions and billions in taxpayer money and still, it’s not broadly operational. At least not operational at a level that justifies the cost.
Really, at this point we should be producing drone fighters anyway. Drones aren’t as romantic, but they cost less.
(From Yahoo Finance)
A scathing new report on the F-35 compiles virtually every reported deficiency with the world’s most expensive weapons system.
Dan Grazier, a former Marine captain and a defense policy investigator at the Project on Government Oversight put together a definitive history of the F-35’s shortcomings, ultimately concluding that the program is a “national disaster” in dire need of an intervention.
The piece draws from sometimes years old reports out of the F-35 program about several failures along its course of development. According to Grazier, the F-35’s computer, sensors, and sensor fusion don’t effectively help pilots or improve on existing platforms, it fails as a fighter and a close air support platform, and officials behind the program have repeatedly tried to obscure the true cost of the jet.
http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/
Source: http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2017/04/price-tag-is-the-only-thing-stealthy-about-the-f-35-scathing-new-report-tears-the-f-35-to-shreds/
