tickleandrose wrote on Oct 1
st, 2018 at 12:05pm:
The F35s is pretty much directed at Russia and China. We really dont need F35s to combat ISIS or Taliban. We have much less costing armed drones for those.
We won't need F35s for Russia or China ... more like the peril just to our north that we keep giving money to hand over fist.
And the F35s are years behind schedule & have been a bottomless pit for expense with questionable fighter capability and poor range.
Quote:After years of delays and cost blow-outs, the controversial Joint Strike Fighter has arrived on Australian soil for the first time.
Quote:Their debut in Australia comes 15 years after the Federal Government first announced that Australia would participate in the "system development and demonstration phase" of the US-led Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter program.
Quote:The Federal Government is preparing to spend $17 billion on 72 F-35 aircraft, with the first expected to be delivered to Australia in 2018 and enter service in 2020.
It will be over $17billion & still 2 years away from them actually being in service.
I'd say they are more likely than not to become the lemons their critics have already said they are.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-27/joint-strike-fighters-f35-land-in-australi...Yeah who cares about the cost hey Hippie head?