The F-35 Pissing Contest Continues

[unhappycamper]

unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, I’ve decided to give ya’ll an unhappycamper summary of the article and a link to the OP. To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.

To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.

(This space reserved for a legally correct snark dump.) It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: Be sure to read the comments at the end of the thread. Byron Skinner's comment says it all.




SAC Hammers Gates on JSF
By Colin Clark Thursday, September 16th, 2010 6:45 pm
Posted in Air, International, Naval, Policy

How frustrated is the Senate panel with the management of the F-35? They say they considered scrapping all JSF funding for the year. All. Only the country’s “urgent need” for new fighters stayed the committee’s hand, the report says. Exercising restraint, the panel thinks 10 of the 42 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft requested by the Pentagon should be cut. That works out to $1.5 billion.

[Submariner]

1. F-35 = corporate welfare

we don't need that expensive piece of crap for defense, it is just a cash cow for corporate executives.

The F-15 Eagle and F-18 Hornets are more than enough kill power in the world we live in.

[Swamp Rat]

2. same as it ever was