By BP February 8, 2016 It seems the F-35 fighter; aka the most expensive weapons system ever, hasn’t been in the news too often lately. And most of the news out that is out there is awful, according to reports in early February. If or when the jet fighters do fly on a regular basis, […]
By Zacks Equity Research February 10, 2016 The U.S. Department of Defense has announced that it plans to purchase fewer F-35 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT – Analyst Report) over the next five years, than it had originally planned. Pentagon’s Plans for the F-35 Jets Importantly, the Pentagon was forced to cut approximately […]
By Bryant Jordan Feb 09, 2016 The Air Force on Tuesday released a 2017 budget geared to rebalance the force and counter readiness problems resulting from years of deployments, personnel shortages and sequester-forced spending caps that have cut into modernization programs across the board. At $167 billion, the service’s budget is roughly $5 billion more […]
By Bruce S. Post FEB. 1, 2016 The passionate disagreements about the F-35 and industrial wind share a commonality: the meaning of home. “Home is the place,” wrote Robert Frost, “where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” Home and hearth are rooted in our soul, private places of respite […]
By Marina Malenic February 11, 2016 Key Points F-35s have accumulated more than 50,000 flight hours The 25,000 flight-hour milestone occurred in December 2014, and that number doubled in just more than one year Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters operating at 12 international locations have accumulated more than 50,000 flight hours, the […]
By Blake Stilwell Feb. 11, 2016 Normally, James Martin is the very model of a modern major general. But the Air Force officer, who is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Budget, recently collapsed at the podium while answering questions about the F-35. Air Force Deputy for Budget Carolyn Gleason held Maj. Gen. Martin up, while aides came to […]
by Bryan Myers & Sheila MacVicar February 2, 2016 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The bad news for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter – the most expensive weapons program in history, with an estimated price tag of $1.4 trillion – continues to pile up. In a stark new assessment, a Pentagon report documents significant and on-going problems […]
By CLYDE HABERMAN JAN. 24, 2016 One of the earliest stealth weapons on record was a stone used by the young Israelite David to kill the Philistine giant Goliath. In the biblical account, David shunned the conventional armaments of his time: sword, helmet, armor. Instead, he went forth with a slingshot and a few stones, […]
By Bryan Koenig November 9, 2015 The U.S. Supreme Courtturned down the chance Monday to weigh in on challenge by landowners to a Vermont high court finding that any local effort to curb U.S. Air Force jet noise at a local airport is barred regardless of whether those mitigation efforts actually impact flight operations. As is customary, no explanation […]
By Jacob Fischler December 15, 2015 A Vermont city and a group of citizens asked a federal judge Monday to undo a U.S. Air Force determination to base a fleet of fighter jets at Burlington’s airport, saying the military failed to properly consider the effects of jet noise. The Air Force shirked its duty under the National Environmental […]