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# The World’s Most Expensive Weapon Has Flopped
- URL: https://readsludge.com/2021/02/26/the-worlds-most-expensive-weapon-has-flopped/
- Published: 2021-02-26T13:56:22.000Z
- Updated: 2024-05-01T16:24:03.000Z
- Description: The F-35 program could soon be scaled back—and possibly phased out—after gobbling up hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars.
- Author: David Moore
- Tags: Air Force, Brick House Cooperative, Defense, defense contractors, F-35, lobbying, Lockheed Martin, Pentagon, weapons contractors, #wordpress, #Import 2023-07-20 16:54

Last week, the top officer of the U.S. Air Force told reporters he was launching a months-long “TacAir” study—short for tactical aviation requirements—into a “force mix” that would possibly involve what he imagined as a “fourth-and-a half/fifth-gen minus” aircraft. 

Full post at [The Brick House Cooperative](https://thebrick.house/the-worlds-most-expensive-weapon-has-flopped/).