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A U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter. | Public domain. Each year Conn Hallinan gives awards to individuals, companies, and governments that make reading the news a daily adventure. These are the awards for 2020. The Golden Lemon Award goes to Lockheed Martin for its F-35 fifth-generation stealth fighter, at $1.5 trillion the most expensive weapons system in history. The plane currently has 883 “design flaws,” including nine “category 1” flaws. The latter “may cause...

The new generation of hardware is coming. Heres What You Need to Remember: To avoid the earlier dramatic failure of “super programs” like the Future Combat System, the Army plans to adopt off-the-shelf solution where possible, and operationally test numerous projects before deciding which merit the funding to ramp up to full-scale development and production. The U.S. Army is at a crossroads as the Pentagon is reorienting itself to fight a capable great power opponent after nearly two decad...

Everything You Wanted to Know About the Eurofighter Typhoon Just over 550 Typhoon fighters have been built, with around 100 more projected to enter service in the future. Heres What You Need To Remember: The Eurofighter Typhoon has been around for decades - and is still one of the best fighters in the sky. Its designers opted for forego stealth for speed and maneuverability, and the Typhoon has plenty of each. One of the European community’s most successful joint defense projects, the Eurofi...

>> the president has so degraded the military and the budget, the first year, you remember that. that was when he did away with the fifth generation fighter, the lift capacity, the c-17, future combat system. >> so, you know, inhofe is talking about a system that in terms of defense spending, you know, from 1997 to 2013, it goes up. and we know that the specific fifth generation fighter that he is talking about, the f-35, replaced the f-22 which is what obama canceled, meaning senator inhofe was...

Talking and negotiating with the very person who has been giving all of the resources to syria in the first place. i hope that some time people will pay attention to the real problem with intervention is that we have a degraded military now. no one understanding this or believes it and yet ive been saying for 4 1/2 years. in his first budget he did away with our only fifth generation fighter, future combat system, the ground base interceptor. that was just one budget. since then, hes taken on hi...