How much is too much to spend on bayonets pre WW1 to face the machine gun?
The F-35 is a 1.5 trillion dollar bet on human dog fighters who cant execute high G maneuvers in a world dominated by fleets of cheap, disposable, AI piloted drones that can. Nagorno-Karabakh and Yemen have already shown a taste of this.
>One of the few things that gets passed in a bi-partisan manner by the US legislature is the military budget
The F35 is curious in this regard because it is so heavily criticized by Congress yet still funded.
This is coz Lockheed distributed F35 jobs across the country on the basis of congressional votes. A vote to kill the F35 is thus a vote to destroy jobs in your district. Lockheed engineered the world's most unkillable military program and then milked it to kingdom come. The shareholders are certainly happy.
This is, sadly, the most impressive form of F35 engineering.
We will look back on many things after the next war and shake our collective heads but I suspect the most glaring and shameful error will be our willingness to indulge corporate profit margins at the expense of the body politic.
