GAO reports US DoD failure to produce viable investment strategy on JSF/Raptor

From Jane’s Today
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The US DoD has failed to present a viable investment strategy for the JSF and the F-22A Raptor aircraft, a GAO report has claimed. Neither programme should proceed until their respective business cases are amended.

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So what does this mean, that the F-35 is not a good money for product item and that all of us who have invested in it are being ripped off?

I know that a knee jerk reaction will hit the public over this and keeping the money coming in from the partner countries is going to be harder now, especially if the public in those partner countries get wind of it and demand that something be done to minimise the costs of the JSF.

Would the US consider an application from partner nations in price caps? Countries like Australia don’t have heaps of money to splash about on expencive toys and I can really see a huge backlash here over this.

What has suprised me is the F-22A being involved in this, I mean the USAF are banking on this plane, what’s going to happen, no more sqdns converting?