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Mattis Backs F-35, Noncommittal On LRSO

Pat Host

Thursday, January 12th, 2017

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Mattis Backs F-35, Noncommittal On LRSO

Defense Secretary James Mattis.

President-elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee backed the F-35 during his Senate nomination hearing Thursday, but was noncommittal toward the Air Force’s next-generation nuclear cruise missile, one of the service’s major modernization efforts moving forward.Retired Marine Gen. James Mattis also defended Trump’s use of Twitter to criticize the F-35 program, saying Trump has the right intentions.“He has, in no way, shown a lack of support for the program,” Mattis told the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) during his nomination hearing.…

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