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Monday, August 17, 2009

F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program: Collapse is a “When” Question, not an “If” Question

F-35 Lightning IIThe F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program has been in serious difficulty for some time, showing all of the textbook symptoms of a failed project.

Like all failed projects it will eventually collapse, the question is now simply one of when it will collapse, rather than if it will collapse.

The F-35 has been on political life support for the last four years, with the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and Pentagon acquisition bureaucrats investing much effort in convincing the White House, Congress and participant Allied nations that the project is an icon of virtue in the current pantheon of failed major acquisitions.

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