The Funniest Thing I've Ever Read About The F-35

[unhappycamper]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/26/lockheed-fighter-korea-idUSL2N0JB24120131126

"By 2019, the Pentagon projects the cost of each new F-35 fighter plane will be around $85 million, putting it on a par with the cost of current fighter planes, said Jim McAleese, a Virginia-based defense consultant."

[Scuba]

1. Yet I feel less secure than ever.

[libodem]

2. I must have gone stupid over night

I just don't get it.

[unhappycamper]

3. "each new F-35 fighter plane will be around $85 million"

Right now these pigs are costing around $243 million dollars a pop, delivered.

Sorry for the confusion.

[libodem]

4. Thank you

For explaining. So it is not a funny ha ha but a funny peculiar? What a sickening waste of resources. This makes humanity suffer and I certainly feel no safer.

[bemildred]

5. Here's another one:

http://breakingdefense.com/2013/11/italian-air-force-chief-speaks-on-f-35-lt-gen-preziosa/

"the future needs an agile operational framework for the integrated employment of allied military power”

"Multi-nationality may be the only way to meet our fighter force requirements”

“Partnerships are changing; continents are working to get closer and to work more effectively with one another. But there is a governability shortfall in managing the new challenges, and in such areas of shortfall the problems appear. There are continuing conflicts within and among continents, but there are also new patches of emerging challenges within the seams of the global system whereby terrorists, organized crime or forces of instability grow and disrupt.”

You got that? A "governability shortfall"

“We now need to have assets which operate in a distributed manner with coalitions engaged to deal rapidly with problems. The advantage of airpower is its reach, speed and mobility. The challenge is to coalesce capabilities to put resources rapidly up against threats and challenges early enough to deal with them,” the general told me.

Compare that with this from TMNT:

Chief Sterns: We are presently executing a plan of redeployment that will minimize response time while maximizing coordination between patrol units and a decentralized networking scheme.

http://breakingdefense.com/2013/11/italian-air-force-chief-speaks-on-f-35-lt-gen-preziosa/