Australian SME's misled early and often with the F-35 program

Thanks to the various entrenched Defence bureaucracy cheerleaders and LM-salespeople-by-any-other-name in the NACC office:

Some Australian defence contractors say their involvement in building the Pentagon's F-35 warplane has turned into a nightmare because of its development setbacks, delays and now speculation that Canberra will cut orders for the jet.

Contracts could be worth $5.5 billion for the 18 Australian companies that are part of the F-35's global supply chain.

LOL on the $5.5B. Loss-leader and corporate carcasses.