F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER NOT READY FOR COMBAT UNTIL AT LEAST 2019, GAO SAYS

The $397 billion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will not be ready to go into operation until at least 2019, 23 years after the Pentagon signed a contract in 1996 with Lockheed Martin to produce just fewer than 2,500 of the aircraft for the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, according to a new report.

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