"PENTAGON WORKING TO GIVE F-35 JSF NUCLEAR-STRIKE CAPABILITY"

Ed Rasimus wrote in
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On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:26:10 +0200, "dott.Piergiorgio"
wrote:

Ian B MacLure ha scritto:
"dott.Piergiorgio"
wrote in :

Mike ha scritto:
Inside the Air Force - 4/24/2009

GENERAL: PENTAGON WORKING TO GIVE F-35 JSF NUCLEAR-STRIKE
CAPABILITY

The Defense Department and a handful of allies have launched an
effort to ensure the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program is capable
of conducting the most devastating mission in modern warfare --
delivering a nuclear bomb.
Ugh.....

let's cross well the fingers, there's already a mess, and a -D
version, available to select few, has all the potential to sink the
entire program......

Why another version? It would simply be a Block X update to
whatever was fielded. What after all is the difference
between nuclear and non-nuclear capable aircraft? Basically
some form of safety gear related to weapon fusing.

Indeed, but the "select few" in the end actually is a "select one"
(the other reliable US ally is well-known for their penchant for
indigenous solutions), and other partecipating countries have a public
opinion more or less against nuke weapons, and at least a pair of said
countries has serious issues with their Defence budget.... it's easy
to draw the (inauspicious) conclusions, IMVHO.

Best regards from Italy,
Dott. Piergiorgio.

And, yet, in the past the list of NATO allies that sat alert with
tactical nuclear weapons on small jets was pretty long:

Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Turkey, Greece, Italy, W. Germany,
France, UK...

Kanuckistan. Their 104s had a nuclear strike role before
"Turdeau" took over.

IBM