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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 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.
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(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.
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