Congress Greases Flightpath for the F-35 Boondoggle
Politicians bedazzled by fighter plane that can’t fight.
Despite warnings of poor performance and spiraling costs from at least three oversight agencies, both of the Congressional armed services committees voted to add new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft to the President’s appropriations request and approved a three-year block buy.
The final number has yet to be hashed out, but if the Senate gets its way, taxpayers will buy 94 F-35s in 2018. That would mean more than 800 F-35s would be purchased before the design has been fully tested.
You can read the full article at The American Conservative.
Dan Grazier
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