Breaking Defense. “One of the things we noted in our recent budget analysis," he added, "is that the program was already at a burn rate of around $1B per year, even though the acquisition strategy had not been finalised.”He added that all this spending would need to be justified by defence chiefs, given that the F-35 Lightning II is nowhere near the end of its service life.“Despite the existence of a prototype, the Air Force is still going to need to make the case that it is time to switch to a new fighter when the F-35A has still not reached full rate production.”.
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