The appearance of two all new attack and defend aircraft have raised issues of substance for the Joint Strike Fighter program, and indicate that the US and its allies should carefully review their plans to maintain air superiority, reports Ben Sandilands.
Joint strike fighters
Joint Strike Fighter strafes thousands of homes with noise
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has destroyed the value of thousands of homes in the Port Stephens area through revised noise exposure boundaries imposed last week.
JSF: The truth about that rushed $3.2 billion commitment
Defence Minister John Faulkner was conned into promising $3.2 billion upfront for 14 completely useless, low-rate F-35s because Lockheed Martin is running a project with the capacity to swallow a very large fraction of US and western allied GDP, writes Ben Sandilands.
Time for Defence to come clean on the JSF debacle
A new report on the JSF Joint Strike Fighter project was released in US Congress today, and it is a shocker: the cost has shot up 60-90% per jet, and they are running at least two-and-a-half years late. Time for our own government to admit it’s a flop, says Ben Sandilands.
Politicians haven’t done homework on Joint Strike Fighters
Australia’s national security committee may make an approval on the Joint Strike Fighter project today. But what do they have to base a sound purchase decision on? Nothing, says Eric Palmer.
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.
