I have been a staunch supporter of the A-10 Warthog that is due to be retired for a flying lump of manure, the F-35……I have written several posts in defense of the A-10…..(a little reminder)…..
When I heard the the US military was thinking about replacing the A-10 Warthog with the ultra-modern F-35 I went into full ranting mode….I have been defending the honor of the Warthog…..but in case you missed some of the post I have written….a little reminder……
Source: A-10 VS F-35 – In Saner Thought
(that post contains several other posts on the A-10 controversy)
I have stated many times what a waste of taxpayer money this “brick” is and yet the defense department keeps throwing taxpayer cash at it……
The Pentagon will need as much as $530 million extra to finish the development phase for Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35, the most expensive U.S. weapons system ever, defense officials said.
……..
The call for more money comes as the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester has issued a fresh warning that the aircraft, projected to cost $379 billion for a fleet of 2,443 U.S. planes, is far from showing it has full combat capability.
Source: The Lockheed F-35 Needs Another Half Billion Dollars – Bloomberg
A project that should have cost $379 billion now needs yet another infusion of taxpayer cash to the tune of $530 billion……that brings the total of a trillion (trillion with a “T”) for a piece of crap!
How much more money will this debacle cost the American taxpayer….,that waste of money is needed elsewhere……rime for the DoD to admit that this is a failure and spend the money on more realistic programs.
Put this turd in the crapper where it belongs…the A-10 is the best plane for the defense of our troops…..period!
When will the taxpayer begin to regret that their money is being pissed away on programs that about as useful as rotten turnip?
It would appear that you’re slightly angry with the progress and cost of the F-35 🙂 I see the F-35 as the equivalent of Windows ME or Windows Vista; like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. If we weren’t trying to take over the world attempting to create the American Empire, we wouldn’t need such planes to even exist.
Agreed…but my main bitch was the retirement of the only plane capable of helping keep ground troops safer…A-10….
I remember when they were talking how useless the F-35 was, and I read the article where a pilot took it up and it couldn’t dogfight, the controls sucked, etc. The only way I could console myself and forget the idiocy a while was watch all my “Dogfights” episodes back to back that weekend. Hadn’t they figured out trying to make a weapon that everybody will like makes a piece of crap nobody will like? Thought they would’ve figured that out by now. How many homeless could that budget feed instead? Sheesh.
Exactly and they want to retire a perfectly good plane for close support….the A-10…..chuq