re: Pentagon’s $1.7T F-35 jets have ‘maintenance issues,’ finish missions barely half the time

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This is a huge mistake that the Air Force and Navy have made over and over going back to the 50s. When you design a single aircraft that can do it all, namely air-to-air combat, ground attack, bomber, reconnaissance) you’ll get a plane that can indeed do all those things, but it won’t be able to do any of them all that well.

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The part that gets me the most about the F-35 is now much business was involved. From day one, the plan was to make it exportable.