Congressional Research Service--Through to FY2013, F-35 has received $83.3B in funding

The great thing about the readership of this blog is that many of them are smarter than I am. This makes some fact-checking and corrections much easier. Especially when hard sources are presented right out in the open.

In a Congressional Research Service report dated 29 April 2014, (PDF file), in regard to the status of the F-35 program, we see a very simple statement on page 16.


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For us that are critics of the program, this is a nice "baseline" for us. In that any spending from FY2014 afterward is added to this, so-as to keep track of what goes on.

Obviously my $60-some billion figure in a previous post was wrong. As usual, I was too kind; too generous; too believing of those that have all the alleged super secret access to the F-35 program, yet, time and again, have difficulty making credible, accurate statements about its progress.

You can divide this into the current number of airframes built and/or flying as you see fit.

The take-away though is that this could be the biggest military procurement Ponzi-scheme of all time.

$83.3B...

...and climbing...

...for no combat capability.



H/T- A reader


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-Time's Battleland - 5 Part series on F-35 procurement - 2013 
-Summary of Air Power Australia F-35 points
-Bill Sweetman, Aviation Week and the F-35
-U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) F-35 reports
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-History of F-35 Production Cuts
-Looking at the three Japan contenders (maneuverability)
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-Value of STOVL F-35B over-hyped
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-December 2011 Australia/Canada Brief
-F-35 Key Performance Perimeters (KPP) and Feb 2012 CRS report
-F-35 DOD Select Acquisition Report (SAR) FY2012
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-Land of the Lost (production cut history update March 2013)
-Outgoing LM F-35 program boss admits to flawed weight assumptions (March 2013)
-A look at the F-35 program's astro-turfing
-F-35 and F-16 cost per flying hour
-Is this aircraft worth over $51B of USMC tac-air funding?
-Combat radius and altitude, A model
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-The concurrency fraud
-The dung beetle's "it's known" lie
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-The F-35B design is leaking fuel
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-Aboriginal brought out as a prop
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-History of F-35 engine problems
-Compare
-JSF hopes and dreams...early days of the Ponzi Scheme
-The Prognostics
-2002--Australia joins the F-35 program
-Congressional Research Service--Through to FY2013, F-35 has received $83.3B in funding