Spin-check

A red flag is usually when you see a title of an article or post as "fact-check" or "fact-box". Many times that is not the case.

And in this case, giving bad investment advice doesn't promote longevity. My corrections added below:

Factbox - Current plans for F-35 warplane orders from U.S., allies
Sun, 24/02/2013 - 20:36
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies plan to buy thousands of new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter warplanes in coming years.

Following is a list of the planned purchases, according to data provided by Lockheed Martin Corp , the prime contractor for the $396 billion weapons program.

Lockheed is developing three variants for the U.S. military services and eight partner countries that helped fund the plane's development - Britain, Australia, Italy, Turkey, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Canada. Two other countries, Italy and Japan, have also placed orders for the fighter jet.

The conventional landing A-model will be used by the U.S. Air Force and most allies; the B-model, which can take off from shorter runways and land like a helicopter, will be used by the U.S. Marine Corps, Italy and Britain; and the C-model, or carrier variant, will be used by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.

U.S. Air Force 1,763 F-35As ***pure fantasy which ignores some serious facts that USAF has experienced significant procurement faults for years. In 2008, their own people in Plans and Programs (those that tell the boss how to make ends meet) stated that it would be unlikely that USAF could afford more than 48 jets per year once full rate kicked in. Things have not improved since then. In 2001, the USAF plan was to go full-throttle at 130 a year with procurement ending in 2026-27. Later, in 2006, this was changed to 80 per year extending out to 2036-37. The trend-line does not inspire confidence.***

U.S. Navy 260 F-35Cs ***(not with carriers and air wings being parked, and, no proof of a jet that traps)***

U.S. Marine Corps 340 F-35Bs and 80 F-35Cs ***(Good luck)***

Britain 138 F-35Bs ***(The UK government has not committed to any such order. It is now looking more like a few dozen. And that assumes the flying piano works.)***

Turkey 100 F-35As ***(Also hype and, ignores current Turkish concerns about the program.)***

Australia 100 F-35As ***(Anyone that follows the Australian story (while not sniffing model airplane glue) finds 100 at best, a fantasy).***

Italy 60 F-35As and 30 F-35Bs ***(Being assured with Italy always has risks)***

Netherlands 85 F-35As ***(See Australia above)***

Canada 65 F-35As ***(See Australia above)***

Norway 52 F-35As ***(Faith-based procurement and an over-all military that is under-funded on pure military readiness)***

Japan 42 F-35As ***(They actually have to work. Speaking of work, all the JSF Partner Nations must feel cheated when looking at the FMS deals with give-away industry off-sets. "Best-Value"?)***

Denmark 30 F-35As ***(Has stated their F-16 replacement is open to other types as well)***

Israel 19 F-35As ***(No "sale". Bought with U.S. taxpayer money) ***

(Reporting By Andrea Shalal-Esa; Editing by Eric Beech)