Ok guys.
Can't lie to ya. I'm beginning to wonder about this F-35...I'm gonna label myself still in the camp but waving around like a flag in the breeze.
My worry? Budgets. My worry? Loss of experience in the Marine Corps due to equipment being chosen over people that have put it on the line time after time after time. My worry? Marines riding into combat in a vehicle almost a half century old.
My concern? I get news like this. Call it a Bill Sweetman special shot across my bow courtesy of Aviation Week and NavAir....
This was not the only hint about classified programs in the April 17 hearing. RAdm Bill Moran, director of the Navy’s air warfare division, noted that as well as funding APG-78 active electronically scanned array radar retrofits to all early Block 2 Super Hornets, “there are several other programs that I’d be happy to come back and talk about in a classified setting. They are very signficant, fully funded in 2014 and will keep the Super Hornet credible through the late 2020s and early 2030s.”I've got to get the transcripts from this meeting to read it all for myself. The Dark Lord himself is playing Sith mind tricks on me with stuff like this!