“The 25-ton stealth warplane has become the very problem it was supposed to solve.”
The F-35 was sold as the cheap, light jet to replace the F-16. Twenty years of R&D made it heavy, buggy and about $100 million a copy. Now the Air Force chief calls it a Ferrari for Sundays and wants a new cheap fighter to replace the F-16 all over again. Lockheed got paid either way.