Joint strike fighters


Crikey Clarifier: The JSF project … the J is for ‘joke’

The JSF or Joint Strike Fighter is a massively hyped, much-delayed defence project by which a single type of jet will supposedly defend the US and its allies from baddies. Think of a super duper X-box with wings. It has got everything. Or has it? asks Ben Sandilands.

Memo to Joel Fitzgibbon: Why not wait for the White Paper?

Ordering new fighter planes before the Defence White Paper is finished is a tad premature, argues former Office of national Assessments strategist Sam Roggeveen.