The protection racket continues.
But over 20 years of R&D, that lightweight replacement fighter got heavier and more expensive as the Air Force and lead contractor Lockheed Martin packed it with more and more new technology.
Yes, we’re talking about the F-35. The 25-ton stealth warplane has become the very problem it was supposed to solve. And now America needs a new fighter to solve that F-35 problem, officials said.
Forbes
The U.S. Air Force Just Admitted The F-35 Stealth Fighter Has Failed
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We've known this for a while. The F35 tried to be good at everything and ended up being good at nothing. This is from a 2012 interview (10-minute video):
Our 2012 interview with Pierre Sprey a defence analyst who spent 20 years working at the Pentagon and helped designed one of the most successful jetfighters ever, the A10 Warthog. He is a confirmed critic of the F-35.
Defence analyst Pierre Sprey on the F-35 (2012) - the fifth estate
“ now America needs a new fighter ”
No ... how about let’s just keep making the same plane thinking it’s going to have different performance....
The CF-35 fighter will be known as the Albatross.
Very expensive make job program.
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