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Mar 18 2013
02:17 am
By: EricLykins
The F-35 "is expected to cost $1.5 trillion over its useful life" and it can't fly through a cloud.
Stupid clouds.
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Just like the VTOL Osprey
It's "useable life" is defined as the number of years before Congress and the public forgets this fiasco and allocates $200B for another fighter that can't fly.
The trend towards fewer, higher tech planes continues. I lots can barely get enough time on one to stay qualified, much less proficient. Meanwhile the planes that dropped the most ordinance in Iraq/Afghanistan were the venerable B-52s and F-15s.