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The F-35’s Terrifying Bug List
The Pentagon’s top testing official has weighed and measured the F-35 and found it wanting. By Patrick Tucker.
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Unready for War: America’s F-35 Gets a Bad Report Card
Last July, the United States Marine Corps declared their short takeoff/vertical-landing (STOVL) version of the stealthy Lockheed Martin F-35B Joint Strike Fighter operational. However, a new Pentagon operational test and evaluation report shows that the jet is far from ready. By Dave Majumdar. -
Pentagon can't check F-35 maintenance thanks to insecure database
Auditors crawl over Defence security, drop report. By Darren Pauli. -
Retirement of A-10 delayed, defense secretary says
The Obama administration has taken the A-10 fighter jet off the chopping block, Defense Secretary Ash Carter confirmed Tuesday. By Bill Theobald. -
Watchdog report: Technology, capability issues still plague F-35
Documents obtained by America Tonight find that the F-35 remains far from suitable for combat. By Bryan Myers and Sheila MacVicar.
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I was reading about this. The last article 'F-35 project team says bad dogfight report “does not tell whole story"' was a real hoot. They really tried to cover their trails here but what they did was make an inferior plane for more money.