{"id":69413,"date":"2016-12-15T10:41:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T15:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69413"},"modified":"2016-12-15T10:41:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T15:41:25","slug":"trump-to-slash-f-35-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69413","title":{"rendered":"Trump to slash F-35 program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=60638\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60638\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/F-35.jpg\" alt=\"F-35\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60638\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>President-elect Trump sent this Tweet the other day;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The F-35 program and cost is out of control. Billions of dollars can and will be saved on military (and other) purchases after January 20th.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/808301935728230404\">December 12, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows that the F-35 program has been a moneypit. From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/donald-trump-wants-slash-f-173638566.html\">Popular Mechanics<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Full-scale production of the F-35 was originally scheduled to begin eight years ago, but this proved to be an overly-optimistic estimate by 11 years-and that&#8217;s assuming full-scale production does, in fact, begin in 2019 as projected now. The F-35 will be the most expensive weapons system in history by a significant margin, exceeding $1 trillion in projected lifetime costs. Trump has targeted the program as an area to save money, along with the new Boeing 747s intended to serve as the new Air Force One jets.<\/p>\n<p>At last count, the Pentagon plans to purchase 2,457 F-35 Lightning IIs to fill the needs of the Air Force, Marine Corps, and the Navy. The cost per plane is roughly $100 million, depending on the variant, though full-scale production should drive down that cost some in the future. Even so, the concerns about the aircraft have led Canada to cancel their order of F-35s in favor of Boeing&#8217;s F\/A-18 Super Hornet, and Boeing has submitted a formal proposal to Denmark to consider doing the same.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congress and the Pentagon have been overly-optimistic about the F-35 both it&#8217;s capabilities and the day it will go into production, and it is time to bring that optimism to an end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Trump sent this Tweet the other day; The F-35 program and cost is out of &hellip; <a title=\"Trump to slash F-35 program\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69413\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump to slash F-35 program<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}