Boeing says F-35 isn’t so stealth after all.

Add to that it will cost 24 Billion dollars to service and support them, on top of the purchase price.
I would suggest the purchase is being forced on us by America or a lot of people got very big kickbacks.

No person with all the evidence available in there right mind could with a straight face say we are getting our moneys worth.

The US Navy has decided to drop the number of Lockheed Martin-made F-35s it plans on purchasing from 69 to 36.

A number of high ranking Generals in the Pentagon have even gone on record to criticize the planes record of efficiency.

Add all the problems together from software to reliability to now not so stealthy the Russian plane is better in range and speed.

Maybe we should even look to the European jets or anything except this EXPENSIVE big white elephant.

http://www.blacklistednews.com/Money_for_nothing%3F_Boeing_says_F-35_isn%E2%80%99t_so_stealth_after_all/34762/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Dear Philip,

I read an article by David Wroe, Defence Correspondent
in The Saturday Age, April 26th 2014, Insight 29.

It gives another perspective on this topic which
is worth reading:

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/joint-strike-fighter-commitment-a-boost-for-hightech-manufacturers-20140425-379on.html

Foxy, a different perspective but when they finally get it right if ever the cost by pentagon officials is sure to skyrocket.

Also just like a used car salesman the Americans are saying it is the best but when you compare some specifications like range and speed the Russian one wins.

Time will tell if it is the lemon the US generals say it is.

Reminds me about our other military purchases, the submarine lemon comes to mind, also something with uniform purchases.

Yeah..but..
What are the alternatives?
The next best option is the Dassault Rafale which costs $95 million.
The SAAB Gripen, $70 million but it's less capable.
Eurofighter Typhoon, around $90 million.
The Russian PAK-50 and Chengdu J-20 are years away, they still face major obstacles before they can enter production and it's not certain whether they can live up to their potential.
In the worst case scenario for the forseeable future the Australian F35 and FA/18 fleet might be facing off against older Su27 and Su30 variants and derivatives like the Chengdu J7 in combined operations with the U.S and it's now dominant F22 Raptor.

It shows how primitive mankind still is, when all countries have a need to spend money on weapons of mass destruction.

Mankind was doing it 10,000 years ago, 2,000 years ago, 200 years ago and we're STILL doing it. In this aspect mankind hasn't advanced at all, as we are still a territorial, fighting, aggressive, primitive species.

What is important here is not what we are spending on military hardware, but the fact we are spending billions of dollars as our contribution to supporting the greed that is Global Capitalism.
Unregulated greed-driven capitalism is destroying the economic viability of the whole world.
A very good article by Richard Seymour goes a long way to explaining the link between Global Capitalism and militarism, and its ever increasing need to devour trillions of dollars of wealth each year.

http://socialistworker.org/blog/critical-reading/2014/03/08/capitalism-and-militarism

I can already see that our gullible 'Usual Suspects' on OLO will dutifully fall into line and accept Abbott's lies as to what motivates this obscenity.