The think tank was named further down the article (as was the analyst), but my main point still holds.

 

"Thomas Ehrhard, an analyst with the Center of Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a nonpartisan research institute"

 

 

Funny how our current administration is willing to throw money around like a drunken sailor on dubious social programs, but suddenly are worried about spending money on defense programs that the country will need.

 

As has been mentioned before, the American people were warned about what happens when far-left Democrats are running the show.

 

"The military doesn't need all those fancy toys."  --Barney Frank

considering that the stumpys are 6 months ahead of schedule, then the memo seenms to have been lost on some of these "analysts"

The only thing that's six months ahead of schedule is the Navy announced it was bringing IOC for the F-35C forward by six months to Q4 2014.  That would be significant if what the Navy announces had any bearing at all on the program.  

 

They flew 33 out of a planned 317 test flights in FY09, they delivered one out of six planned flight-test airframes in FY09, and the entire schedule has slipped out six months -- after already slipping out a whole year in 2008 to make it "more realistic".

 

Yes, yes, I know, parallel testing, bench testing, simulations.  The A380 and the 787 used those methods too.  The more I look at the F-35 the more I'm reminded of another "universal" fighter-bomber with an internal weapons bay and super advanced technology.

More likely FB-111 though the F-105 had an internal bay as well...

 

Close...

 

we'll have every APA fruitcake on the planet chiming in....  

at least we got it to work properly when we did the digital upgrades under the AUP program.  it was the last 4 years of its life before it turned out ok...