Runaway Fighter

Exclusive new revelations about the troubled F-35 program

September 28, 2012

By Winslow Wheeler

It could yet prove to be the most expensive defense purchase in Canadian history -- $25 billion and counting. The military promises it's the best fighter jet available, but some critics are saying it's a turkey hatched from a bad idea: a do-it-all plane that might not do anything well-at-all.

Watch this special report here, Runaway Fighter: Exclusive new revelations about the troubled F-35 program, By The Fifth Estate, September 28, 2012.

Winslow Wheeler

Winslow Wheeler is the former director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information.

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