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Musk Comments on F-35 Receive Pushback

Frank Wolfe

Monday, November 25th, 2024

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Musk Comments on F-35 Receive Pushback

A Royal Netherlands Air Force F-35A Lighting II takes off to participate in Arctic Challenge Exercise 2023 at Ørland Air Base, Norway on June 5th last year (U.S. Air Force Photo)

While Elon Musk said that the "F-35 design was broken at the requirements level because it was required to be too many things to too many people," the U.S. Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy and the United Kingdom developed and signed off on F-35 performance requirements--not system specifications--over seven years. Musk is the billionaire founder of SpaceX and the Trump designee to head a new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with fellow tech mogul Vivek Ramaswamy. Musk and Ramaswamy have…

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