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Senators Want To Study Alternatives To F-35

Julie Samuel

Friday, May 20th, 2011

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The heads of a Senate panel called yesterday for examining alternatives to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter as Pentagon officials acknowledged the program’s current costs are too high. Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) that price projections--showing that over the life of the program the per-aircraft cost of 2,443 F-35s has doubled in real terms--are “unacceptable.” “It’s unaffordable at that rate,” Carter testified on Capitol Hill. “And that cost growth has been in every…

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