via Yahoo News.
"We have concluded that these planes are the best ones for us. There is nothing in the development over the past couple of years that has shaken that decision," she said. "At the same time, it's a huge investment and it's definitely also something that will have consequences for the rest of our armed forces."Yeah.
Told ya so.
We can quibble about the effectiveness of the airplane. We can argue about the total obedience to orders that Lockheed Martin has over some members of the Pentagon.
But the extreme cost of this airplane, both to the nations buying it and to the rest of their militaries is beyond doubt. The F-35 is so expensive that its making our partner Air Forces smaller (so small that they're no longer effective) AND having a knock on effect of gutting their other forces to the point of irrelevancy.
