DOD Leaders Call F-35 Criticism In Testing Report 'Premature'

By Gabe Starosta / March 12, 2013 at 5:54 PM
The Joint Strike Fighter's program executive officer and the Pentagon's top acquisition official today cautioned against reading too much into criticism leveled against the program in a February testing report, calling that criticism premature and out of context. The F-35 PEO, Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, also said that if any of the three JSF variants is at risk of being canceled or curtailed today, it is the F-35C carrier variant, simply because it has the furthest to go in development...

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