F-35 News. The F-35 will strain future operations....

via Bloomberg.

“At current estimates, the projected F-35 sustainment outlays based upon given planned fleet growth will strain future service operations and support budgets,” the report said. Lockheed also “must embrace much-needed supply chain management affordability initiatives, optimize priorities across the supply chain for spare and new production parts” and share the data rights to certain F-35 software with the Pentagon.

Story here. 

Another story hitting what I posted yesterday but I missed this juicy nugget.

This airplane that we've labored so hard to build over more than a decade is still going to be draining budgets dry.

This is concerning.

The USMC is buying the F-35B.  Supposedly the plan was to buy the plane, clear the budget and to upgrade the rest of the service once aviation was taken care of.

Now?

Now we see that this plane will be a continuing drain on resources.

The pain won't stop after the plane is put into service.  No.  It will continue for decades more.

We need a plan B.

The USMC MUST JOIN THE US NAVY IN BUYING THE SUPER HORNET!!!