A recent editorial in the Times, The Fighter Jet That’s Too Pricey to Fail The F-35 is a boondoggle. Yet we’re stuck with it., strikes a welcome chord with me, since I just ran a similar piece, The F-35 Flying Turkey, Fiercely Flapping Its Wings, last week. Yet, as the second sentence of the subhead…
Tag: F-35
The F-35 Flying Turkey, Fiercely Flapping Its Wings
Well, turkeys can fly, can’t they? So what’s the problem? Over at Forbes, David Axe brings us totally predictable (and predicted) news: The U.S. Air Force Just Admitted The F-35 Stealth Fighter Has Failed. Dan is extrapolating, just a little, from a recent article in Air Force magazine, Brown Launching Major TacAir Study with CAPE,…
The F-35 “Hanger Queen”
I recently stumbled across an intriguing site on the Internet,“War Is Boring”, which featured a necessarily long article—necessarily long because it was titled “Everything Wrong With the F-35”, the F-35 being America’s newest and (of course) most expensive fighter jet. The F-35 is in fact the most expensive weapons project in history, and one that…