Counting Dollars: The Cost Of The F-35Writing an
opinion column in AW&ST last week, senior international defense editor Bill Sweetman, referred to Lockheed Martin’s criticism of a Rand Corp. report that concludes the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program would cost more than the total of three separate fighters. Sweetman says “wobbly numbers” are warping the F-35 debate and “irreversible decisions are close at hand” for Pentagon leaders, resulting in other programs, including F-16 upgrades and the F/A-18 line, being sacrificed to pay the bill.
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And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight. — E. B. Jeppesen
