Australia's F-35 roll-out fraud

Today (U.S. time) is the roll out of the first F-35 for Australia.

What the average Australian person may or may not know is that this aircraft has no credible combat capability.

Nor is that likely to improve.

Frank Kendall, U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology & Logistics. (Mr. F-35 is aquisition malpractice) was at the ceremony.

He has now be put under proper control and the puppet-strings are being pulled with a good endorsement for his post DOD employment via the revolving door.

Air Marshal Geoff Brown of the RAAF was there. He is back in action after being shot to pieces by one of our few elected officials who isn't asleep at the wheel. Watch the whole video. I was worried he was going to cry when caught in so many lies.

The LM boss says it is fitting to mark the 100 years of Australian military aviation. Someone remind the audience about that capability at the start of WWII.

Since then Australia has been doing good. They should be proud of RAAFs past accomplishments in places like Korea and Vietnam.

As well as various peace and security ops.

I don't know how we are going to pay for an aircraft that is 4-5 times more expensive to fly per hour than the current, old F-18s. And those F-18s have more capability. 13 troubled years after LM winning the JSF contract, all they have to show are mistake-jets.

And while bring up the F-18, when Australia decided to get them--75 at the time--the first two were produced in the U.S.

The rest were assembled in Australia.

I can't imagine why Australia is on the fast track to having a majority of its defence logistics and future, tied to foreign interests.

Where they set the terms of almost everything.

Your job? Be a compliant taxpayer, don't ask questions, and hand over the money.

That isn't good government. That is theft.

By trick or device.


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-Time's Battleland - 5 Part series on F-35 procurement - 2013 
-Summary of Air Power Australia F-35 points
-Bill Sweetman, Aviation Week and the F-35
-U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) F-35 reports
-F-35 JSF: Cold War Anachronism Without a Mission
-History of F-35 Production Cuts
-Looking at the three Japan contenders (maneuverability)
-How the Canadian DND misleads the public about the F-35
-Value of STOVL F-35B over-hyped
-Cuckoo in the nest--U.S. DOD DOT&E F-35 report is out
-6 Feb 2012 Letter from SASC to DOD boss Panetta questioning the decision to lift probation on the F-35B STOVL.
-USAFs F-35 procurement plan is not believable
-December 2011 Australia/Canada Brief
-F-35 Key Performance Perimeters (KPP) and Feb 2012 CRS report
-F-35 DOD Select Acquisition Report (SAR) FY2012
-Release of F-35 2012 test report card shows continued waste on a dud program
-Australian Defence answers serious F-35 project concerns with "so what?"
-Land of the Lost (production cut history update March 2013)
-Outgoing LM F-35 program boss admits to flawed weight assumptions (March 2013)
-A look at the F-35 program's astro-turfing
-F-35 and F-16 cost per flying hour
-Is this aircraft worth over $51B of USMC tac-air funding?
-Combat radius and altitude, A model
-F-35A, noise abatement and airfields and the USAF
-Deceptive marketing practice: F-35 blocks
-The concurrency fraud
-The dung beetle's "it's known" lie
-F-35's air-to-air ability limited
-F-35 Blocks--2006 and today
-The F-35B design is leaking fuel
-F-35 deliveries
-ADF's wacky F-35 assumptions


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