F35, The jet that ate the Pentagon • BRAVE NEW FILMS: SECURITY #1 • DOCUMENTARY
At least $8 billion of the Pentagon's budget for 2015 is devoted to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Already on track to be the most expensive weapon system in history, the F-35 is becoming...
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The F35 is the jet that ate the Pentagon. It's devouring the budget and it's devouring the pentagon's air capability. What it looks like now is we're probably going to spend twice as much as we thought on the system -you're talking about one and one-half trillion dollars. One and a half trillion dollars for a plane that so far has not worked. At a time when we're cutting the budget for cops and teachers. It's extraordinary, phenomenally expensive, and it's never been in combat. The airplane is so complex and horrendously designed That we'll be lucky if we can fly it every other day. It won't be ready for combat on the current schedule until about 2019 -almost 10 years late The biggest beneficiary of the F35 is Lockheed...
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The F35 is the jet that ate the Pentagon. It's devouring the budget and it's devouring the pentagon's air capability. What it looks like now is we're probably going to spend twice as much as we thought on the system -you're talking about one and one-half trillion dollars. One and a half trillion dollars for a plane that so far has not worked. At a time when we're cutting the budget for cops and teachers. It's extraordinary, phenomenally expensive, and it's never been in combat. The airplane is so complex and horrendously designed That we'll be lucky if we can fly it every other day. It won't be ready for combat on the current schedule until about 2019 -almost 10 years late The biggest beneficiary of the F35 is Lockheed...
