The F-35 may be unsalvageable
Seems a lot of the problems are due to how the government develops and acquires military hardware, with incentives for the various players massively misaligned with the interests of the country as a whole. I wonder what would a sane acquisition program look like?<p>A company developing a product and then offering the more or less completed product to the military worked during WWII, but a cutting-edge fighter (or many other pieces of cutting-edge military hardware) development project is such an expensive and risky project that a company can&#x27;t do it alone and hope that the government then comes and buys the finished product. So going back to how things were done back in the day isn&#x27;t an option.<p>Likewise the government taking the main design responsibility and using the companies only for building the products the government has designed probably won&#x27;t work either, as the government doesn&#x27;t have the expertise.<p>So what would a sane strategy look like?