While the Pentagon now expects the plane to fly until 2088, GAO found the services are planning to slash flight hours, which can help hold down the program's topline.
  • freagle@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    LOL. Their solution to the program’s lifetime being so expensive is to work the f-35s to death like they do their workers. Sci-fi authors couldn’t have come up with a better conceit

    • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Also it still can’t operate within 25 miles of a thunderstorm

      This must be why the reactionaries are so scared of communist weather control machines.

      It is 2035, the US military embarks on a geo-engineering project to manufacture a drought so its shitty planes can more effectively vaporize villages in the global south.