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The US military's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft is proving to be a pain in the neck in more ways than one. Not only did the Pentagon spend almost $400 billion to buy 2,400 aircraft - about twice as much as it cost to put a man on the moon - the F-35 program is 7 years behind schedule and $163 billion over budget. This at a time when cuts in the defense budget are forcing the Pentagon to shrink the size of the military. CBS 60 Minutes took a closer look at the troubled fighter plane a few months back, but their rebroadcast on Sunday evening seems like as good a reason as any to revisit one of the biggest ongoing budget debacles in U.S. military memory. David Martin gets an inside look at what makes the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter the most expensive weapons system in history.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Monday June 02 2014, @01:33PM
Does anyone else find this kind of headline condescending? I didn't know the F-35 was any kind of mess, because I don't know anything about planes. On the other hand, an aviation engineer or other plane fan might already know exactly how much of a mess it is.
Headlines that think they know what you think are almost as bad as the ones that tell you how you will react or what you should do:
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 02 2014, @02:03PM
Go back to the cave you crawled out of. And stay there.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Monday June 02 2014, @02:07PM
Not condescending at all. If you didn't know it was a mess, then it is more of a mess than you thought.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Monday June 02 2014, @05:36PM
By the same logic it's also more of a resounding success than I thought. So that doesn't really work.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by lx on Monday June 02 2014, @03:13PM
I'm ignorant about fighter aircraft, but when your government despite massive opposition intends to spend billions of euros on these overpriced pieces of junk when cheaper and better alternatives are available and the damn things are in the news every other week then you tend to take notice. Usually this particular waste of money is described as the Joint Strike Fighter or JSF.
Perhaps your country isn't involved in this boondoggle. In which case feel free to sit back in smugness. You deserve it, but please look at a real newspaper once in a while.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday June 02 2014, @04:31PM
You don't have to be a plane expert to follow the news and know that the F-35 program has been a budgetary disaster for a long time.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Monday June 02 2014, @05:33PM
Maybe if you're an American...
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 1) by strength_of_10_men on Monday June 02 2014, @05:26PM
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Monday June 02 2014, @05:31PM
I believe that's what's known as "piss-poor logic." Technical term, that.
Actually, it is. Unless, of course, you've made mistake of assuming that yours is the only country on the planet.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by nitehawk214 on Monday June 02 2014, @09:27PM
If you did not know the F-35 was a mess... then the title is correct. It is more of a mess than you knew. And knowing is half the battle.
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