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F-35 crashes same day Lockheed CEO touts its success

The US military's biggest boondoggle keeps boondoggling

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The Pentagon continues its sloppy shopping spree

This week in 'The Bunker': Why prices don't ever come down in the Pentagon; a 'green' nuclear bomber; the Navy's hopeful ship quotas, and more

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'Flop': Proponents of the F-35 can't tell you that it works

When they've resorted to arguing 'it's a job creator,' you know there isn't much military use

Who gives 'Three Cheers for the Military-Industrial Complex'?
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Who gives 'Three Cheers for the Military-Industrial Complex'?

Defense industry-funded think tanks like the Hudson Institute, apparently.

F-35: $2T in 'generational wealth' the military had no right to spend
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F-35: $2T in 'generational wealth' the military had no right to spend

The Joint Strike Fighter had a $200B price tag in 2001, now babies born that year are out of college and the plane is still not ready for prime time

The US military chases shiny new things and the ranks suffer
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The US military chases shiny new things and the ranks suffer

We were told the Osprey, LCS, and F-35 were cutting edge, but they turned out to be boondoggles and deathtraps