“The Jet That Ate the Pentagon”

Interesting headline on the front page of The Huffington Post about F-35.

“Claimed to be near invisible to radar and able to dominate any future battlefield, the F-35 will replace most of the air-combat aircraft in the inventories of the U.S. Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and at least nine foreign allies, and it will be in those inventories for the next 55 years. It's no secret, however, that the program -- the most expensive in American history -- is a calamity.”

If F-35 debacle can eat the Pentagon then it should gobble up Harper government as it is facing the same predicament.

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F-35 Fiasco: Auditor General’s Report

“The Conservative government would have known that the F-35 was estimated to cost $25 billion when the Defence Department provided Parliament with a $14.7-billion figure in the weeks before the last federal election, Auditor General Michael Ferguson said Thursday.”

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