From Air Power Australia:
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program has been in serious difficulty for some time, showing all of the textbook symptoms of a failed project. Like all failed projects it will eventually collapse, the question is now simply one of when it will collapse, rather than if it will collapse.
The F-35 has been on political life support for the last four years, with the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and Pentagon acquisition bureaucrats investing much effort in convincing the White House, Congress and participant Allied nations that the project is an icon of virtue in the current pantheon of failed major acquisitions. While former procurement Czar John Young went as far as to criticise the program’s prior management history, he was not prepared to admit the obvious, which is that the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter now qualifies in all key respects as what project management professionals term a “non-executable project”.
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My Comment: ELP Defens(c)e Blog and other bloggers have been raising the red flags on the F-35 program for a long time now .... how long will it take for the main stream media, politicians, and the paid analysists to take notice.
At least the Air Power Australia site is taking notice.