Did China And Russia Just Make The F-35 Obsolete?

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Did China Just Render America's $1 Trillion Stealth Fighter Program Obsolete? -- Rich Smith, The Motley Fool

Over-budget, behind schedule, and -- reportedly -- not a particularly good fighter jet, Lockheed Martin's ultramodern Joint Strike Fighter may be destined for the scrap heap.



In a 2013 RAND Corporation report, one of the nation's foremost military analysts, blasted the F-35 for being a fighter that "can't turn, can't climb, can't run." Proponents of the F-35 reply that because it's stealthy, it shouldn't have to do any of those things -- lobbing missiles at its foes from over the horizon, and long before they can even see it.



Unfortunately, it turns out that the F-35 may not do the "invisibility" thing very well, either.



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My Comment: The bad news on the F-35 program continues to build up.