On Thanksgiving Donald Trump touted the capability of the F-35 jet fighter to a holiday gathering of the Coast Guard.
“Amazing job, and amazing job. So amazing that we’re ordering hundreds of millions of dollars of new airplanes for the Air Force, especially the F-35. Do you like the F-35? I said how does it do it in fights, and how do they do in fights with the F-35. He says we do very well, you can’t see it. Literally you can’t see. It’s hard to fight a plane you can’t see right? But that’s an expensive plane you can’t see. And as you probably heard we cut the price very substantially, something other administrations would never have done, that I can tell you.”
Cheaper?
Better?
I doubt it and the F-35 can’t even compete with the old F-16, but its production seems unstoppable.
$1 trillion for a plane that can’t provide oxygen to the pilots.
A deal for all involved parties.
ps I can’t imagine what use the Coast Guard have for a F-35.