Selective Arithmetic to Hide the F-35’s True Costs
The F-35 has been an odyssey in government waste and inefficiency.
(From POGO)
For the F-35, selective math is the weapon of choice to try to make the costs of this struggling program disappear and give the impression that the jet is quite a bargain. And even as the program’s boosters push the Pentagon to buy more aircraft based on misleading numbers, the F-35 is already going down the well-worn path of shiny new weapon systems that don’t deliver as promised and sooner or later end up with cuts or outright cancellations from the services.
This article was originally posted here: https://www.ac2news.com/2020/10/selective-arithmetic-to-hide-the-f-35s-true-costs/.
