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Rogers: ‘We’re Not Gonna Eliminate the F-35’
« on: December 25, 2024, 10:33:47 am »
Rogers: ‘We’re Not Gonna Eliminate the F-35’
 
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By Frank Wolfe |
19 days ago |
12/05/2024
 
Elon Musk had his 4-year-old son X Æ A-12, or “X” for short, on his shoulders when the SpaceX billionaire emerged from a meeting with Capitol Hill legislators on Thursday afternoon. As the reportorial herd behind the rope lines shouted questions about “conflicts of interest,” Musk smiled before sauntering on and disappearing again.

Musk is the Trump designee to head a new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with fellow tech mogul Vivek Ramaswamy. Musk and Ramaswamy have pledged to cut government significantly–their most prominent targets being DEI initiatives, personnel, and programs they view as wasteful or unaligned with “American values.”

One program that Musk turned his attention to just before Thanksgiving on his X social media platform is the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 (Defense Daily, Nov. 25). Musk wrote that the “F-35 design was broken at the requirements level because it was required to be too many things to too many people” and disparaged the fighter as “a s–t design” and “an expensive and complex jack of all trades, master of none.”

https://www.defensedaily.com/rogers-were-not-gonna-eliminate-the-f-35/air-force/
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Re: Rogers: ‘We’re Not Gonna Eliminate the F-35’
« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2024, 01:37:11 pm »
F-15's F-16's, F-18's, A-10 Warthogs, etc. have been proven in combat.

The F-35 is still a poorly procured and managed experimental aircraft program, for now.

Older planes have been more expensive and more difficul to maintain over time because the US Federal Government has allowed misguided Global Trade euphoria to hollow-out America's industrial manufacturing base.
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Re: Rogers: ‘We’re Not Gonna Eliminate the F-35’
« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2024, 02:52:01 pm »
Since the F-22 factory tools and dies have all been destroyed and there is little chance of further procurement, I think the F-15EX is a great alternative.  It's a proven air frame and pretty much an Air-to-Air missile boat!

Boeing’s F-15EX Eagle II Fighter: No Stealth, No Problem

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2024/12/boeings-f-15ex-eagle-ii-fighter-no-stealth-no-problem/



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