The ADM F-35 fan magazine continues

Let us have a look.

"People forget how many times the F-16 crashed, that two F-22s crashed, and the F-111 was seven years late arriving in Australia."

Point being? In the late 70's the F-16 swooped into a NATO tactical bomb competition and wiped the board clean on weapons delivery over the very accurate A-7, F-111, very capable Jaguar etc.

Today? F-35 declares IOC as a polished turd.

So the quote above is the product someone being dishonest or clueless.

"All of the facts and figures in that report are accurate,” LTGEN Bodgan confirmed. “I know they are accurate because every piece of information in that report came from my program office."

The rigging of range tests too?

"So, having said that, there were absolutely no surprises in that report for me, for my partners, or for my leaders in the Department of Defense or Congress. We knew about every single issue in that report."

Yet continue pushing a program, still in DOD procurement milestone-B (think about that for a moment), pushing illegal low-rate-initial production (LRIP) jets that can only happen in DOD procurement milestone-C...and hyping 'block-buys" that can only happen when DOT&E is awarded to signify full-rate production.

IOC in DOD procurement milestone-B.

Not.

Very.

Honest.

That being said, LTGEN Bogdan explained earlier this week at a dinner presentation to the Sir Richard Williams Foundation that the program was audited or reviewed by 30 different agencies or bodies last year, both from the US and from partner nations.

Sir Richard Williams is rolling over in is grave knowing a advocacy fan group stole his name to hype, a defective aircraft to the unsuspecting sheep.

"It lays out issues and problems that we have on the program, which are accurate, but instead of putting a comma after that it puts a period at the end of the sentence."

Here is a period at the end of a sentence. A 20 year-old F-16 will dominate an F-16 in close combat. Other existing and emerging threats will kill it out-right.

"I do not think I've ever seen a program where the misperceptions and inaccuracies are so far from the reality of the program."

I don't think I have ever seen a program given such a free, low-performance pass over U.S. DOD procurement law.

“The program runs on money and trust. And if we lose your trust, if we lose the trust of the partnership; if I lose the trust of the senior leaders on this program throughout the partnership then we don't have a program at all.”

What trust is that?

"Funnily enough, LTGEN Bogdan’s Senate Inquiry timeslot was overtaken by the release of the White Paper and his statement was not heard at this time."

Release of a weak, common document sidelines an important Senate inquiry. This is just a bad excuse.

Maybe someday, actual journalists will cover this story.

None to be found.



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