Lying to Canada

Not much this May 2009 LM, F-35 brief to Canada is true.

-No two engine vendor option: GE/Rolls F136 is gone.
-Various metrics shown are fantasy: cost, schedule, capability.

Note the number of air frames for each partner nation.

If Canada dumps the F-35, 80 not 65 F-35s will be lost.

So, who was giving Canada's elected officials such bad advice?

A year later, the program would get slammed for its second breach of Nunn-McCurdy. Stripping the program of a pencil-whipped DOD Procurement Milestone B.

Losing Milestone B is like a bar being stripped of its liquor license.

Not to worry, it was waived and pencil-whipped back later.





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