By Tyler Rogoway, The WarZone: “Retired Air Force Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz has stated in his new memoir that F-22 production was idiotically axed after building less than half the required number so that the flying force could get then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to approve building a new stealth bomber.”
By Joseph Trevithick & Tyler Rogoway, The WarZone: “Axing F-22 production at just 187 examples has become one of the most hotly debated and controversial defense procurement-related decisions of our time.”
By Dave Majumdar, The National Interest: “The new up-gunned ESG concept adds an enormous amount of anti-surface and anti-air capability the amphibious unit—especially when the firepower the Aegis-equipped destroyers is combined with the F-35Bs.”
By Abraham Ait, The Diplomat: “Tokyo looks to American and indigenous alternatives as a result of the joint strike fighter's shortcomings.”