Kevin Michaels

FILE - An F-35 fighter jet arrives at the Vermont Air National Guard base in South Burlington, Vt, Sept. 19, 2019. Switzerland’s defense department says any delay to a planned multibillion-dollar acquisition of U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets would have “grave consequences” for Swiss security. On Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022 the Swiss government announced that campaigners had cleared the bar of more than 100,000 signatures of a petition by citizens calling for a referendum on the planned purchase of 36 of the Lockheed Martin-built jets. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring, File)

The troubled F-35 jet sure spreads the money around

No one knows what the F-35 aircraft can do in a war, say, over Taiwan. One thing we do know is the fifth-generation fighter, now something like 20 years…

Defense Industry