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Pentagon and Lockheed Martin heads should roll over F-35 disgrace

By Tom Rogan
Published March 9, 2021 11:00am ET
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Pentagon and Lockheed Martin heads should roll over F-35 disgrace
The administration requested a total of 63 F-35s this year. The House version already added the 11. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Sergio A. Gamboa)

I disagree with Rep. Adam Smith on nuclear deterrence policy. But when it comes to the F-35 joint strike fighter jet program, the House Armed Services Committee chairman is dead on the money.

Speaking on Friday, Smith described the F-35 program as a “failure on a massive freaking scale.”

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