America's Military Can’t Repair Its Own $1.7 Trillion Jet
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Only about half of the U.S.’s fleet of F-35 fighter jets is operational at any time due to difficulties with repairs, which must go through contractors.

America’s Military Can’t Repair Its Own $1.7 Trillion Jet | Only about half of the U.S.’s fleet of F-35 fighter jets is operational at any time due to difficulties with repairs, which must go throu…::Only about half of the U.S.’s fleet of F-35 fighter jets is operational at any time due to difficulties with repairs, which must go through contractors.

  • n3m37h@lemmy.worldEnglish
    728·
    1 year ago

    What an amazing use of our tax dollars, first ya overlook every other plane manufacturer make it a competition between Lockheed and Boeing… Fuck the American govt for pushing this shit on us. I want my Canadian tax dollars back for the JSF Program.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      93·
      1 year ago

      Exactly! How dare they spend American tax dollars paying American companies to employ American citizens!

      Wait…

      • n3m37h@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        You moron, the JSF was funded by a bunch of countries.

        Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is a development and acquisition program intended to replace a wide range of existing fighter, strike, and ground attack aircraft for the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and formerly Turkey.[1] After a competition between the Boeing X-32 and the Lockheed Martin X-35, a final design was chosen based on the X-35. This is the F-35 Lightning II, which will replace various tactical aircraft, including the US F-16, A-10, F/A-18A-D, AV-8B, EA-6B and British Harrier GR7, GR9s and Tornado GR4. The projected average annual cost of the program is $12.5 billion with an estimated program life-cycle cost of $1.1 trillion.[2]

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Strike_Fighter

        • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          1 year ago

          How polite!

          So are you saying you’re from one of those other countries and are mad about the spend? I could understand that. But from the rest of America, thanks for the donation.

          • n3m37h@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            1 year ago

            Nnnnoooooo… I’m a big ol fat dumb Murikan. Rrraaa Rraaa raaa. Of course I want my money back, y’all said it was gonna be an international competition (between 2 American companies). F35 is a POS, you say its not? HALF OFNTHE FUCKING FLEET IS GROUNDED!! Get your head out of your giant asshole

    • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      23·
      1 year ago

      Imagine if Canada and the other NATO members paid their fair share of defense. Or medical research.

      • n3m37h@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        1 year ago

        That’s because we actually pay our infantry and treat them when they get home instead of tossing em on their ass and letting them become homeless

        • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          12·
          1 year ago

          Regardless of how you treat them we’d still be subsidizing your defense. And we have some pretty wild disparities in how we treat people depending on weird shit.

    • Scrof@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      622·
      1 year ago

      It actually is and you should be greatful. If you don’t like it might as well move to China or Russia right now.

      • n3m37h@lemmy.worldEnglish
        116·
        1 year ago

        The fuck is wrong with you? Did you forget about Britain and Sweden? America has been ruining Canada for a fucking long time. We should have saidz fuck you and your shit missiles, we’re building the Arrow