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As the most lethal, survivable and connected fighter jet in the world, the F-35 gives pilots the critical advantage against any adversary, enabling them to execute their mission and come home safe.

The F-35s transformational capabilities enable pilots to operate in any environment, against any threat.

Simply put it is the most advanced multi-role fighter in the world delivering unmatched lethality, survivability and connectivity.

Playing a critical role in joint domain operations, the fighter brings unprecedented situational awareness, information sharing and connectivity to the coalition.

The F-35s impact can be felt in the skies as well as on the production lines of more than 1,900 suppliers around the world.

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As far back as 1999 the same type of stealth technology was not able to prevent a U.S. Air Force F-117 flying over Kosovo from being located, tracked and shot down using an out-of-date Soviet radar and surface-to-air missile system.

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Sign Up Aerospace What Went Wrong with the F-35, Lockheed Martins Joint Strike Fighter The F-35 was billed as a fighter jet that could do almost everything the U.S.

By Michael P.

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Its supposed to replace and improve upon several current and aging aircraft types with widely different missions.

Its marketed as a cost-effective, powerful multi-role fighter airplane significantly better than anything potential adversaries could build in the next two decades.

Its also become the most expensive defense program in world history, at around US1.5 trillion before the fighter is phased out in 2070.

Even after President Trump lambasted the cost of the program in February, the price per plane dropped just 7 million less than 7 percent.

Essentially, the Pentagon has declared the F-35 too big to fail.

As a retired member of the U.S.

Air Force and current university professor of finance who has been involved in and studied military aviation and acquisitions, I find the F-35 to be one of the greatest boondoggles in recent military purchasing history.

That violates the most elementary financial principles of capital budgeting, which is the method companies and governments use to decide on investments.

So-called sunk costs, the money already paid on a project, should never be a factor in investment decisions.

Rather, spending should be based on how it will add value in the future.

In 2013, a study by the RAND Corporation found that it would have been cheaper if the Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy had simply designed and developed separate and more specialized aircraft to meet their specific operational requirements.

It would, in fact, be second only to the F-22 in air superiority.

In addition, the F-35 was to have better range and require less logistics support than current military aircraft.

The Pentagon is still calling the F-35 the most affordable, lethal, supportable, and survivable aircraft ever to be used.

In January 2015, mock combat testing pitted the F-35 against an F-16, one of the fighters it is slated to replace.

The F-35A was flown clean with empty weapon bays and without any drag-inducing and heavy externally mounted weapons or fuel tanks.

The F-16D, a heavier and somewhat less capable training version of the mainstay F-16C, was further encumbered with two 370-gallon external wing-mounted fuel tanks.

This requirement has taken precedence over maneuverability, and likely above its overall air-to-air lethality.

The Pentagon and especially the Air Force seem to be relying almost exclusively on the F-35s stealth capabilities to succeed at its missions.

The plane looks smaller on radar perhaps like a bird rather than a plane but is not invisible.

The F-35 is designed to be stealthy primarily in the X-band, the radar frequency range most commonly used for targeting in air-to-air combat.

Air Force F-117 flying over Kosovo from being located, tracked and shot down using an out-of-date Soviet radar and surface-to-air missile system.

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