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Sunday, May 18, 2014

RAF's £70 million F-35 fighter 'may be cancelled because of poor performance'

F-35 Lightning IIBritain's long-delayed £70 million stealth fighter may have to be cancelled because of its poor performance, according to analysis by a senior US Air Force officer.

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter being built for British and US forces is based on outdated ideas of air warfare, it is claimed. The aircraft could be unable to evade enemy radar and be too expensive for long campaigns.

The critique in the US Air Force’s own journal concludes that the new fighter may even have “substantially less performance” than some existing aircraft.

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