“It leaves as a part and comes back as a plane — one of the most advanced fighter planes in the world,” Minister for Defence Material Jason Clare said.
Poor Mr. Clare is an ignorant fool. Not his own fault for the most part, but because of the poor and/or misleading advice he gets from the entrenched defence bureaucracy.
LOL.
The continuing saga of the most egregious example of a defence program Ponzi-scheme in human history.
The SME's are now facing a lot less work because of F-35 program management incompetence and a very large rent-seeking inspired group of government cheerleaders.
This from 2002:
The stealth aircraft was affordable because there were already so many, more than 3000, on the order books, said Air Marshal Houston.
From 2007:
For the production phase, the JSF Industrial Participation (IP) Plans negotiated for Australian industry with Lockheed Martin and the two JSF engine manufacturers, identify production opportunities valued at more than AUD$9 billion.
--Speech, The Hon. Bruce Billson, MP, Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence--
Music to a rent-seeker's heart. Oh, and even though all partners were briefed on the advantage of plug-and-play two-engine choice for vendors, the U.S. shot that down because they had to cover red-ink in other areas of cost blow-outs.
Poor SMEs. "Now hiring" also means now firing.
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And the Japanese have managed to negotiate to build most of it, and assemble.
We have some very smart negotiators here.
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