F-35 program’s lifetime price tag tops $2 trillion, Pentagon wants jets to fly longer
F-35 program’s lifetime price tag tops $2 trillion, Pentagon wants jets to fly longer
While the Pentagon now expects the plane to fly until 2088, GAO found the services are planning to slash flight hours, which can help hold down the program's topline.
2 trillion dollars for a plane that can't fly in rain.
2 trillion dollars for a plane that can’t fly in rain.
What kind of sorcery is this, we ask again?
The engineers must have been high on something strong,
To create a flying machine so horribly wrong!
You’d think that the F-35 Lightning II, being a Lightning-type Pokémon, could survive lighting attacks.
Yeah, but it's flying / electric, so it still takes full damage from both water and electric moves. And if the weather is sleet, it's basically game over.
“But we can’t possibly implement universal healthcare, how would we pay for it?”
Would this be called a 'Boondoggle'?
I'd say standard operating procedure for the current bureaucratic regime.
I do believe that is the correct term