Head of US military kit-testing slams F-35, says it's scarcely fit to fly
Gun: fail. Flight: fail. Software: fail. Schedule: fail. Budget: fail. Plus 270 more fails
>Now-retired Dr Michael Gilmore, until recently the Director of Test and Evaluation for the US military, has published his final evaluation of the F-35 program, and it's a treat.
>In his parting report (PDF), deliciously dated April 1, Gilmore details a host of issues remaining with the US$391 billion-and-counting project, with everything from its combat-readiness to its wing design under the microscope.
L-M completely BTFO
/k/ Lock-Mart shills on a fucking suicide watch!
http://www.dote.osd.mil/pub/reports/FY2016/pdf/dod/2016f35jsf.pdf
Summary articles:
http://www.pogo.org/straus/issues/weapons/2017/f35-continues-to-stumble.html
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/03/gilmore_farewells_trump_government_slamming_the_f35_again/
gotta love dumb taxpayers' money!
BRING BACK THE F-22 AND END THIS SHIT
>>33522398
>.theregister.co.uk
>FY2016
2 year old article
>POGO
Nothing more needs to be said.
>>33522352
>Hey look mommy, I posted it again!
>>33522352
>DOT&E
Just about everyone in the services has criticized it as pure overhead
>>33522352
>This meme is still being pushed
Lighting II is literally the best aircraft ever made(inb4 Me262fags lose their shit)
A year and a half ago they had gotten all the kinks out of it and it was ready to deploy(airborne buddy of mine told me before he shipped out they had finished and all the stink about it was beurocrat bs)
If it's still getting setbacks that means it's just another m2 Bradley and will never see combat
Now stop being faggots
>>33523643
>Lighting II is literally the best aircraft ever made
And yet it can not match a 70s era aircraft in stand-off range. Sad!
>>33522352
Sage