Top Weapons Buyer Disputes P-8 Testing Woes
The Pentagon’s top weapons buyer defended the P-8A Poseidon from an audit that found the aircraft can’t perform its main missions such as hunting submarines and conducting wide-area surveillance. Frank...
View ArticlePremature Weapons Testing Drains Military Budget
The U.S. Defense Department’s top weapons tester had plenty of bad news this week for some of the military’s most expensive weapons programs — from the F-35 fighter jet to the Littoral Combat Ship. In...
View ArticleF-35 Combat Testing Delayed as Software, Mechanical Issues Persist
The Pentagon’s fifth-generation fighter probably won’t be ready for initial operational test and evaluation until mid-2018, a year later than previously planned, due to unresolved technical issues that...
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