Some good stuff in here.
Quote:
The origins of this problem are a dozen years old, and have to do with
variance between the original vision for the F-35 (stealthy, adaptable, precision strike aircraft with enough air-to-air capability to defend itself)
and what it’s now being asked to do (everything).
...
Last week, Gen. Herbert Carlisle admitted what had been long denied by Air Force officials when he explained that
the F-35 would not dogfight, leaving the definitive, core Air Force mission to the service’s small stable of F-22s. This often contradictory and always entertaining furball of rhetoric happens against the backdrop of twin revelations that
the Marine Corps overstated F-35 performance during operational trials and that the Air Force quietly tuned down program requirements to stay on its developmental timeline....
An eight-page
propaganda plan obtained by JQP — labeled “F-35A Public Affairs Guidance” and shared in entirety below — lays out in painstaking (and painful) detail the
authorized answers to public questions about the program.
...
This document is about a chosen, authorized narrative of the F-35, not the F-35 itself. Given that
it purports to be about the F-35, but is really about a chosen image of the F-35, it’s a fundamentally dishonest exercise.
http://www.jqpublicblog.com/ten-things-you-should-know-about-the-air-forces-f-35-propaganda-effort/
