re: #111 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Says who? The boys at Lockheed? The Air Force brass looking to get a brand new toy? The damned thing’s a waste of money and resources that even the boys on Capital Hill who usually can’t say no to a defense program are beginning to question if it’ll ever enter service and what the eventual price tag will look like.

The F-16 needs to be replaced in the next decade or two. It’s getting long in the tooth and Russia and china are building planes that can outfight it. The key is much better program oversight, but I don’t know how that can be done. The incentives for Congress tend to be more about dramatically finding waste that has already happened then wagging their fingers at it. Real oversight is somewhat thankless, and it takes time they see better spent kissing babies and raising money.