F-35C cuts mirror CNO priorities (Aviation Week)

Navy JSF Cuts Mirror CNO Priorities

Navy diverts money from fighters to missiles

Feb 16, 2015Bill Sweetman | Aviation Week & Space Technology

The U.S. Navy has reduced its planned buys of the Lockheed Martin F-35C Joint Strike Fighter by almost one-third over the fiscal 2016-20 Future Years Defense Program (FYDP), while committing almost $800 million to new standoff weapon developments and canceling the only missile program that was primarily dedicated to the F-35C. All the new developments are part of the fiscal 2016 presidential budget proposal and constitute the first move by a U.S. service to slow down its JSF ...

The take away from this? As above.

Navy LOL confidence in the defect-by-design F-35:

"Navy diverts money from fighters to missiles."


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