Saturday, 24 June 2017

The F-35: In a Nation in Decline, Graft Rules the Skies

Russia Insider:



The US Marine Corps has once again suspended flight operations of their darling of aviation technology, the Lockheed F-35B Joint Strike fighter—at least over Air Station Yuma in Arizona where the air is dry, the beer is cold, and the brass can hide from prying photo journalists who haven’t been read the Riot Act yet.



After $400 billion (Make that a capital B) in program development costs that in fact stretch back to the early 1990s, one would think the borrowed money might justify a finished operational project.



Never mind the crumbling infrastructure, bridges, schools and of course questionable healthcare future generations will inherit—look at the really cool warplane they can hear about on the news.



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