Cheating On Tests- The Pentagon Does it Too

The F-35 Joint-Strike Fighter is supposed to become the next step in American stealth fighters with the current military budget listing the retiring of more than 100 existing Air Force while leaving intact plans to produce almost 2,500 F-35s. This would be almost doubling the amount of F-35s in service despite a recent listing 13 serious design flaws in the F-35. Recently the F-35 passed a key Pentagon test of its combat capability, but it may not have been quite as successful as the military would like us to believe. The review council, which includes the vice chiefs of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, eased the regulations for the standard flying profile of the F-35, allowing it an additional 50 feet on the required takeoff. While Stephen O'Bryan a former vice president of Lockheed Martin (the company producing the F-35) insists the F-35 is meeting or exceeding every single one of the Key Performance Parameters that the services have mandated," I won't be convinced of the plane's effectiveness until it passes a test that isn't rigged (of which it has yet to do), regardless of how many members of the company that produce it tell me otherwise.

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