They are NOT likely to be the only ones.
Portugal's dropping out will now mean
everyone else's cost for their
F-35 fighters for a single fighter has just
increased by millions of dollars more considering the cost of each is in the
90 million dollars per unit price point.
The
GAO and
DOGE "Boss" Elon Musk have been pointing out that with all the groundings (+Crashes), production delays, technical delays, at least three
different engine replacements etc. etc. have made not so much a "
rabbit hole" as to be instead
several "rabbit holes" all at the same time.
Our
Maintenace costs alone for the "fleet" we have now will be at least
2 TRILLION Dollars.
With Musks feelings about F-35 (Google it.) and with further countries possibly still to drop out it won't take long for
DOGE too go HMmm!?!. They are
already looking at the
DOD.
We await the outcome.
This is a good article that's up to date thus far on the situation. The video is worth a look as well on the differences of each
F-35.
https://reason.com/2025/03/17/allies...st-2-trillion/
And who won the "
Battle in the West"? Though redacted there's enough there to surmise it was the
A-10 even though
no Forward Observers from the USA, USAF or USMC were allowed to be there for the
full competition or not at all. That for another time.
Regards,
Pat
