When it comes to defense budgets, if you want to save money you dont do it by chopping the most cost effective assets you already own, and you dont do it through slashing training and readiness, you do it through making hard procurement decisions. If dropping thirty or so F-35As from the USAFs procurement initiative will send the eternally fragile program into an unrecoverable tailspin then we should not continue investing into such a volatile and questionable program. Unmanned technology is already the disruptor of a millennium when it comes to the F-35s most high-priority roles, those being striking fixed targets deep within enemy airspace and surveying the battlefield clandestinely, yet the Pentagon is betting the farm on a manned system that is supposed to remain effective for forty years.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:50:24 +0000
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