Thursday, October 10, 2013

F-35. Bulkhead Cracks.

via Yahoo.com
News of the cracks came after Bogdan and Lockheed officials highlighted progress on the $392 billion F-35 program, the Pentagon's costliest arms program, at the annual Air Force Association conference last month.
Hawn said Bogdan did not discuss the cracks during the conference because they were found on the Marine Corps' version of the plane, not the Air Force version.
Lockheed said there were about 50 F-35Bs with the same bulkhead. Modifications would be made and incorporated beginning with the eighth batch of low-rate production planes.
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I disagree with those that say I'm bombing the F-35 with the continuous coverage.  When you have officials that purposefully ignore bad news and hide behind the "we were discussing the air force version so that's why I didn't talk about the USMC version"...then you know exactly how diseased this beast really is.

Ignoring a Pentagon that is morally bankrupt from top to bottom (I mean seriously!  You couldn't move money around to get those families paid that lost loved ones but you can keep this program on track???  Fuck you all in that five sided building!) how much is it going to cost to bring all these (yeah..I'm borrowing this from you ELP) MISTAKE JETS up to speed?

IOC for the Marines by the middle of 2015?  Fat fucking chance.