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This is unacceptable. We must increase the budget to 3 trillion dollars.
4 trillion! and send another 500 billion to 
It takes real effort to have a worse track record than the Rockwell/Collins B-1B Lancer; that fucking thing was plagued with delays, cost overruns, and still needed significant modifications even after final delivery. IIRC, the first ones off the assembly line shipped without a defensive avionics package (e.g., radar detection and jamming) installed -- for something sold to the DOD as a "penetration" bomber whose whole schtick was avoiding goddamned radar. And hitting mountains when the pilots would intervene and take over for the autopilot, but that's a different story altogether. It wound up being a punch line in the whole cold war balance of power between the USAF and the Soviets because even though it was (and still is) kind of a beast at avoiding detection by ground radar stations and SAM sites, fighters with look-down/shoot-down systems and even satellites have no problems whatsoever tracking it.
Most of its operational use has been in asymmetric warfare scenarios -- as in, dropping 2,000 pound JDAMs and bunker busters on people who have absolutely no way to fight back. 
Was the F-35 even intended to actually do missions? I assumed it was just a MIC grift/jobs program.
If you judge it by what it actually does, it was designed specifically to fall off of aircraft carriers.
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based on what counts as fully mission capable, that sounds like 0.0 F-35s could taxi on a runway to a be parked in a different hangar.
On the Wikipedia talk page I once complained that the words "controversial" and "controversy" appear on where on the main page. Within ~30 minutes my comment was flagged with a term I never saw before or since. I think it was "refractored" or something. In any case - my comment vanished from the talk page.
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I just had a look at the page and I saw this baloney.
As of 2024, the program is expected to cost some US$2 trillion through 2088.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II
There's no way in hell that's close to accurate. That's some Hollywood accounting on top of 60 years in to the future bullshit.
The page also has the green good article icon at the top of the page.
Communists have 5 year plans, Capitalists have 65 year plans.
so what's the real number then? like 1 in 10?