ABC TVNews thick with praise for the first two F-35A – claiming 20 to 1 kill rate in US trials over existing US fighters – where opposition was presumably the F-22 and modernized F-16 or F-15. David Archibald has written several articles on the F-35 shortcomings. Most recent and his book American Gripen: The Solution to the F-35 Nightmare from two years ago. A March 2015 article by David Archibald – The Disappointment That Is the F-35. David has kindly sent me this 293 page pdf copy of his book American Gripen: The Solution to the F-35 Nightmare. My email says the pdf is 5.5MB
72 F-35s cost 17 billion.
$25K per hour to operate.
Seems exorbitant to me and a waste of our money.
Do we really need so many.
The cost of the aircraft is peanuts compared with what we are wasting on renewables and associated subsidies.