Marine Corp to put flawed F-35 into service
SANDRA I. ERWIN, NATIONAL DEFENSE MAGAZINE
MAR. 27, 2015
The biggest story this year so far in the F-35 joint strike fighter world is not the soaring cost of the aircraft — a problem that appears to have been contained, according to the program manager — but the determination of the Marine Corps to put the aircraft into service even though its mission software is unfinished and cracks surfaced in one of its main bulkheads.