Norway decided after quite the drama to buy the new F-35 jet. It was a showdown where the Eurofighter withdrew cause they thought it was all decided in advance while the JAS Gripen stayed on with the Swedish hoping for the contract.
The largest contract ever done by our military.
As expected, we did choose the F-35, for reasons that wasn’t all that silly, for example the Swedish problematic neutrality, however…
It is becoming clear that the bill for the F-35 is now growing totally out of proportion, not to mention the cost to maintain these planes.
I vividly remember the Bradley drama in the 80’s , the US army’s attempt to make a swizz army knife version of the AFV. The bill was astronomical and caused quite a stir and a movie :)
Lessons not learned, I figure this is what’s going on the F-35 aswell…
I know this is weapons system XYZ to blow up in the budget, but seriously… when they bought this, I thought as follows… If I was doing this, I’d buy our F-16 some new missiles…because modern aircombat is dull as hell and nothing like HAWX.
And in the not to distant future looms drones that just do everything in the air and better to boot.
I wonder where this will end…