« on: November 25, 2024, 05:02:07 pm »
https://nypost.com/2024/11/25/business/elon-musk-slams-idiots-making-costly-f-35-fighter-jets-as-he-prepares-to-cut-costs/Elon Musk again fired insults at the Pentagon’s F-35 program as he prepares to lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency and advise the White House on how to slash federal spending.
The billionaire backer of Donald Trump’s election campaign slammed the “idiots” who continue to build manned fighter jets like the F-35 in a Sunday post on X, adding a trash can emoji.
In a separate post on Monday Musk, who is CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX, doubled down.
“The F-35 design was broken at the requirements level, because it was required to be too many things to too many people,” he wrote. This made it an expensive & complex jack of all trades, master of none. Success was never in the set of possible outcomes.
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“And manned fighter jets are obsolete in the age of drones anyway,” Musk added. “Will just get pilots killed.”
Musk has long claimed that the Lockheed Martin fighter jets are headed toward obsolescence, arguing that drone warfare is the future. Specifically, he has called for fighter jets that are remote-controlled by humans with the capacity for autonomous maneuvers.
“We have combat capable aircraft in operation today and they perform exceptionally well against the threat for which they were designed,” a Pentagon spokesperson told The Post. “Pilots continually emphasize that this is the fighter they want to take to war if called upon.”
A Lockheed Martin spokesperson told The Post the jets are the “most advanced, survivable and connected fighter aircraft in the world” and that they look forward to working with Trump and his team.
EXCERPT
He's right.
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