Posted on 04/02/2014 9:21:58 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
On CBSs 60 Minutes on Sunday night, national security correspondent David Martin chronicled the seemingly never-ending list of problems with the Pentagons next-generation F-35 fight jet, from cost overruns of $160 billion to technical problems that have plagued the planes development.
When asked if the F-35 program, which is expected to cost some $1.5 trillion over the four-decade life of the program, is now under control, the Pentagons acquisition chief, Frank Kendall, said, "Yes, it is."
But that commitment came with a warning.
Long gone is the time when we're going to pay for mistake after mistake after mistake," said Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, the officer who took control of the F-35 program last year. He added that the planes are necessary, however, to keep pace with the technology being developed by U.S. rivals Russia and China.
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Ahh - from Yellow Shirt to Oxymoron!
I started out as an enlisted field radio operator, went to 81mm Mortar FO and years later ended up as the S-2 in a CH-53 squadron.
Unfortunately, the A/C of a -53 in which I was co-pilot managed to blow the LSE off the deck of the USS Coronado (LPD-11) at Rosy Roads. Thankfully, the nets caught him.
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