General Discussion

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At a congressional hearing last month, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall shockingly claimed that fewer than one-third of F-35s are operationally capable.

However jarring that number may seem, it should be familiar to everyone paying attention.

The F-35 has been a taxpayer-funded boondoggle for decades. The price tag is approaching $2 trillion. It is long past the point where taxpayers stop being responsible for the mistakes of government and big military contractors.

For most of the last two years, military contractors have been clamoring for a new engine program for the F-35. This came amid several problems with the current engines. The proposal rightly stalled out because of the many issues with the idea. The new adaptive engine transition program would have taken years to integrate, and, even then, it would not have been fully functional with the Navy and Air Force’s variant of the fighter jet.

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