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Is there anyone unhappy with the F-35 program who does have a fiscal/political stake in it?

• wlesieutre 11y ago
  I mean, we're all paying for it, so sure. From what I understand, the F-35 is trying to be a single airframe that functions as both an air superiority fighter and ground support. Designed around things like vertical landing and short takeoff, which are frequently unnecessary and add complexity and design compromises elsewhere. And as far as actually being ground support, it's not an A-10. It's behind schedule and over budget. And there's the debate over what war this plane would be useful in (having a stick to wave at Russia?), because it's certainly not the kind of war we've been seeing recently. There are a lot of better things we could do with my tax dollars. Like having a slightly less enormous national debt, if nothing else. Or having slightly more solvent social security so I can retire before I croak.
• ohitsdom 11y ago
  ME! (lawful tax-payer)