"Flying Piano" Costs Pentagon $1.5 Trillion

The comment on Luke AFB is out of place in this article. IF there is to be an F-35, the training should be at Luke. Luke is in Arizona and McCain is from Arizona - and he's right. Luke is a national treasure for training fighter pilots - souce of training for the three fighters I flew in the USAF - F-100, F-4, F-15. A discussion of the merits (cost/benefit) of the F-35 is another issue. Did you know that the F-15E is much more complex than the F-15C and D and has a higher reliability - It was designed to be 20% more reliable during 1982-86 development - more capable (dual role), lower logistics demand (cargo airplanes filled with support) for deploying a squadron, higher reliability (breaks less - higher MTBF/MTBMA) and more maintainable.