via National Defense Magazine...
It won't happen, the Marine Corps has mortgaged its future on the promise of an under performing airplane and endangered the future security of the nation by stubbornly sticking with a program that should have been shelved long ago.
Historians will judge everyone involved as being either fools, criminals or both.
Sullivan credited the Pentagon for making “difficult decisions through the years to put the F-35 on more sound footing, but more risks lie ahead and it will be important how these risks are managed.” The biggest snag is the F-35 software, which is holding back the entire program, Sullivan said. The other is the O&S cost. “The estimate right now is deemed unaffordable.”Even if the gimmick of setting up a "Cost War Room" does bear fruit when it comes to acquisition (which I seriously doubt), then the next impossible leap will be to make maintenance affordable.
It won't happen, the Marine Corps has mortgaged its future on the promise of an under performing airplane and endangered the future security of the nation by stubbornly sticking with a program that should have been shelved long ago.
Historians will judge everyone involved as being either fools, criminals or both.
