Thanks for the link Pietro!
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That would be the opening that the other allies are looking for to reduce their purchases.
This will ACCELERATE the death spiral the airplane is already in, and with the Senate set to fall back into Republican hands---along with a resurgent Tea Party led by Rand Paul---we can expect the program to face further cuts here at home.
The craziest thing about all this?
The Pentagon has mortgaged the future of the US Military on the belief that all must be sold to save the F-35.
What happens when they've wrecked the military to pay for an airplane that in the end isn't bought.
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The cut that the government Renzi could bring to the program by reducing to 45 F-35s would represent a compromise that would ensure savings and would maintain the cooperation with Washington while still allowing the Air Force to equip two groups of bombers and the Navy has 15 aircraft short takeoff and vertical landing version of the F-35B to be loaded on the aircraft carrier Cavour. These are the only F-35 really essential for Italy since there are no other aircraft with similar characteristics to replace the old Harrier.A reduction to 45.
That would be the opening that the other allies are looking for to reduce their purchases.
This will ACCELERATE the death spiral the airplane is already in, and with the Senate set to fall back into Republican hands---along with a resurgent Tea Party led by Rand Paul---we can expect the program to face further cuts here at home.
The craziest thing about all this?
The Pentagon has mortgaged the future of the US Military on the belief that all must be sold to save the F-35.
What happens when they've wrecked the military to pay for an airplane that in the end isn't bought.
