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Arizona lawmakers blast ‘ridiculous’ plan to retire A-10 fighter jets
Arizona congressmen Thursday renewed calls for the Pentagon to drop its “absolutely ridiculous” plan to retire the A-10 fighter, saying the replacement F-35 is 10 times as costly and does not protect ground forces as well.
Arizona’s Luke Air Force Base gets F-35 mission
The Department of Defense has chosen Luke Air Force Base in Glendale for the new pilot training center for the F-35 fighter jets, city officials announced Wednesday.
Brewer travels to Washington in push to deploy F-35s to Luke Air Force Base
Gov. Jan Brewer was in Washington Wednesday to urge the secretary of the Air Force to deploy the service’s next-generation F-35 fighter jets toLuke Air Force Base near Glendale.
Multiple suppliers for F-35 engines would be wasteful
A recent guest opinion in the Arizona Capitol Times said: “The government shouldn’t pick winners and losers when it comes to military contractors; the marketplace should.” I could not agree more. However, I must disagree with the author’s statement about Congress being a champion for competition in the case of the Joint Strike Fighter (F-35). In fact, it has been just the opposite.
