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F-35: The Most Expensive Weapons Program in History

The F-35 program serves as the ideal case study to understand the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex. The program encapsulates all the problems with the business of purchasing weapons in the United States. The F-35 has a needlessly complicated design that makes it expensive and difficult to operate and maintain. While this design makes it less effective in combat, it does facilitate subcontracts all over the country for no purpose other than shoring up political support. The sheer size of the program provides many opportunities for officials involved in the program to travel through the revolving door between government and industry.

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Spare Us the F-35 Parts Mismanagement

investigation | July 1, 2020

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F-35 Design Flaws Mounting, New Document Shows

investigation | March 11, 2020

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  • Close Air Support Fly-Off Farce

    investigation | July 10, 2018

  • President Trump’s Flip-Flop on the F-35

    analysis | April 2, 2018

  • F-35: Still No Finish Line in Sight

    investigation | March 19, 2018

  • Kicking the F-35’s Tires

    analysis | February 5, 2018

  • F-35 Program Office Finally Responds to Concurrency Orphan Report

    analysis | October 19, 2017

  • $21 Billion Worth of F-35 Concurrency Orphans?

    analysis | October 12, 2017

  • Defense Bill Language Could Let F-35 off the Hook

    analysis | September 21, 2017

  • Congress Greases Flightpath for the F-35 Boondoggle

    analysis | July 11, 2017

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