The U.S. Military Will Spend $1.5 Trillion on a Plane That Barely Works
January 2, 2015
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as posted by the channelThe F-35 fighter jet was supposed to do a bit of everything. Instead, the aircraft can barely do anything: it has trouble flying at night, its engines have exploded during takeoff, and early models suffered structural cracks. There's no end in sight, either. The all-in costs of this airplane are estimated to be as much as $1.5 trillion. (That's approximately the same price as the entire Iraq War.) In this video, James Fallows explains how such a disastrous project came to be—and why it can't be stopped.
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