Marines Put F-35B Flight Costs 17 Percent Lower Than OSD

Marines Put F-35B Flight Costs 17 Percent Lower Than OSD
Marines Put F-35B Flight Costs 17 Percent Lower Than OSD

PENTAGON: By combing through the assumptions — some of them deeply questionable — undergirding the Defense Department’s official cost estimates for the F-35B and refining them, the Marines say the plane should cost 16.6 percent less per flight hour than the current estimate. Since the F-35B is the most expensive plane to operate, lowering these…

Tribute To Camp Bastion Fallen; Taliban Targeted Harriers, Their ‘Biggest Threat’

It was a warm early fall evening at Dover as a C-17 Globemaster landed, carrying four American sons home. Two Army and two Marines, united in death, having given everything they had to support and defend our Constitution. All four were lost in Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan. The “dignified transfer” from the aircraft to the…