F-35—an aircraft that remains in every official sense nothing more than a massively expensive prototype.
https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2021/02/is-the-f-35-program-at-a-crossroads/
Några punkter:
*Engineers can’t complete the Joint Simulation Environment facility
*struggle against a tide of F-35 design flaws
*its vulnerability to hacking
*failing to live up to its maintenance and sortie requirements, despite the fact that those expectations were set very low
*the report warns that program officials [ODIN] are repeating many of the same mistakes made with ALIS
*It costs*approximately $44,000 per hour*to fly the F-35
*DOT&E warns that many of the F-35s that were delivered early on in the cycle are*not combat-ready.*
*Then-Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, as a parting shot before he happily left the Pentagon in January, called the F-35 “a piece of…” and then went on to say that the United States had created a monster.