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Thursday, July 02, 2015

Your Tax Dollars At Work

A test pilot has some very, very bad news about the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. 

The pricey new stealth jet can't turn or climb fast enough to hit an enemy plane during a dogfight or to dodge the enemy's own gunfire, the pilot reported following a day of mock air battles back in January.

 And to add insult to injury, the JSF flier discovered he couldn't even comfortably move his head inside the radar-evading jet's cramped cockpit. 

"The helmet was too large for the space inside the canopy to adequately see behind the aircraft." 

That allowed the F-16 to sneak up on him. 

The test pilot's report is the latest evidence of fundamental problems with the design of the F-35 — which, at a total program cost of more than a trillion dollars, is history's most expensive weapon.

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