If only we'd canned that program when we had a chance....
It is a US government program like medicaid or workplace safety. It employs large numbers of people in multiple congressional districts and in that sense, it works exactly as intended.
Did you think this was about building an actual aircraft?
Standard rhetoric from an F-16 guy that's never seen anything further than 30NM away with his radar...In a more serious vein, I just ran across this article:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/arguing-whether-f-35-dogfight-154500492.html
Standard rhetoric from an F-16 guy that's never seen anything further than 30NM away with his radar...
Funny how they never even mention the two air-to-air missiles the F-35 carries in it's stealthy configuration. We make fun of the F-16 guys for only having 6, what's 2 going to do for you? Ridiculous.