JSF to survive upcoming budget squeeze. Well duh!

via DefenseNews.com

Despite the rough year the program has endured, "I think the JSF is in great shape," said a former deputy commander of U.S. European Command, retired Air Force Gen. Chuck Wald.
"It's going to replace several airplanes," ranging from the F-16 fighter to the A-10 ground attack plane and even the U.S. Marine Corps' AV-8B Harrier and the U.S. Navy and Marines' F/A-18 fighter, he said.
"When you think about it in that context, from what we'll get from an efficiency standpoint, it's a great idea, it's a great airplane and is one of the last programs that we'd want to cut, because we're going to have to modernize the fighter fleet, and legacy airplanes will cost so much to maintain," Wald said.

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