Mabus: F-35 Cost Reduction ‘Was Going to Happen Anyway’

Credit: U.S. Navy
President-elect Donald Trump’s ongoing pledge to reduce the cost of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter by stoking competition using the F/A-18 is an empty one, indicates the outgoing Navy secretary. “This may be the easiest promise anybody’s ever made. It was going to happen anyway,” Ray Mabus told...
Jen DiMascio

Based in Washington, Jen previously managed Aviation Week’s worldwide defense, space and security coverage.

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