While the second JASDF F-35A was being delivered to Luke AFB, Japan’s fourth F-35A (AX-4, 69-8704) completed its maiden flight from Fort Worth on the same day, January 10. Carl Richards
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SECRETARY OF THE Navy Ray Mabus took aim at joint military programs in January, singling out the F-35 as being slower, more costly, and lacking accountability because of its joint nature. He said that the US Navy’s sixth-generation fighter program, the F/A-XX, should not become a joint program for these reasons.
