WILL IT FLY?

[warrior1972]

The Joint Strike Fighter is the most expensive weapons system ever developed. It is plagued by design flaws and cost overruns. It flies only in good weather. The computers that run it lack the software they need for combat. No one can say for certain when the plane will work as advertised. Until recently, the prime contractor, Lockheed Martin, was operating with a free hand—paid handsomely for its own mistakes. Looking back, even the general now in charge of the program can’t believe how we got to this point. In sum: all systems go!

www.vanityfair.com/politics/2013/09/joint-strike-fighter-lockheed-martin

[101ABN]

Oh, it'll be great...if it works as advertised.

I think it was a damned foolish mistake to cancel the buildout of the remaining F-22s and putting all our eggs in one basket with the JSF.

[warrior1972]

Dec 3, 2013 17:47:39 GMT -8 101ABN said:

Oh, it'll be great...if it works as advertised.

I think it was a damned foolish mistake to cancel the buildout of the remaining F-22s and putting all our eggs in one basket with the JSF.

On that note, I would have gone for 300 F-22s and would have put a lot less burden on the JSF.

The Legacy aircraft (F-14, F-15, F-16, F-18, A-10) sure are a hard act to follow.

[101ABN]

The legacy aircraft make nearly every AF in the world green with envy.