Why the F-35 may not stink
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.2 • 898 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2016
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
This week on War College we're diving into the weeds on how weapons systems come into existence. Andrea Shalal, Reuters’ longtime aerospace correspondent, takes us through the steps. She also gives a counterpoint to the show’s very first episode, which focused on the flaws of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter plane and program. In a discussion that may surprise to some listeners, she describes a program that’s back on track, despite its possible trillion-dollar price tag.
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| 0:54.0 | There's a lot of critics of the F-35, |
| 0:55.8 | and there are problems, to be sure. |
| 0:58.2 | But by and large, the program seems to be doing much better |
| 1:02.1 | since the program was pretty massively restructured in the 2010 time frame. |
| 1:07.0 | This week on War College, we're diving right into the weeds to figure out how weapons get made. |
| 1:20.0 | Andrea Shalal, who is Reuters longtimetime Aerospace Correspondent, takes us through all of the steps. |
| 1:25.7 | She also gives a counterpoint to the show's very first episode, which focuses on the flaws |
| 1:30.4 | of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. |
| 1:33.0 | In what may be a surprise to some listeners, |
| 1:35.4 | she describes a program that's actually |
| 1:37.4 | getting back on track. |
| 1:39.1 | Hello and welcome to War College. I'm Reuters opinion editor Jason Fields. |
| 1:46.0 | And I'm Matthew Galt with War is Boring. |
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