Combine warring service branches, poor project management, a deadly design combination of compromise and complexity, institutional and legislative commitment to bad decisions, an increasing monopoly on defense aircraft manufacture, a seemingly bottomless Pentagon budget, and the steadily rising terror of admitting the whole idea was a mistake — and you have the F-35.
The article isn't the most neutral in the world in tone, but it recaps (once again) how the US seems doomed to end up with a ghastly expensive and mediocre jet as its entire fighter fleet.
F’d: How the U.S. and Its Allies Got Stuck with the World’s Worst New Warplane
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter was meant to improve the U.S. air arsenal but has made it more vulnerable instead
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