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Sunday, July 08, 2012

The JSF: is it worth the cost?

F-35B Lightning IIIn a small carpeted room deep in the labyrinthine bowels of the Lockheed Martin facility in northern Texas, a Joint Strike Fighter takes off, slipping nimbly through the air to destroy two enemy jets before touching down softly on a nearby airstrip.

Though the fast jet - marketed by the arms giant as the future of air superiority - is yet to actually encounter a foe, it is here, in the simulator rooms at the Fort Worth production facility, that Fairfax is introduced to what will be the future of Australia's air warfare capability.

And the simulator room - run by a fussy ex-US Air Force pilot who makes taking the fifth-generation fighter-bomber through a mission look as easy as walking to the corner shop and back - is only one corner of the massive operation that is the development of the F-35 Lightning II, more commonly known as the JSF.

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