No, the F-35 will NOT be a "smashing success" - Answer to Loren Thomson, Forbes

Recently, Loren Thomson signed an article in which he said that the Joint Strike Fighter project will become a "smashing success". While he also said that he has an "emotional attachment to the F-35" because he worked with many of the companies that build it, it doesn't mean that his opinion about it is as independant as it may seems.

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