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Sunday, March 09, 2014

Just Face It – The F-35 Is A “Bomb Truck”

F-35 Lightning IIDefence Watch reader Rob Dresser has this to say about the recent article I wrote quoting USAF Gen. Michael Hostage on the need for the F-22 to accompany the F-35:

The only thing remarkable in General Hostage’s assessment of the F-35 is that anyone should find his comments remarkable. It is refreshing that the head of the USAF’s Air Combat Command should make such frank remarks.

He is right on the money. The F-35 is a bomb truck. It was designed by Lockheed to be inferior in every respect to the F-22. It was anticipated that the USAF would have a fleet of upwards of 800 F-22s to provide cover for the F-35. President Obama turned off the F-22 tap at just 170-airframes.

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