Senate appropriators decide against cash for F-35 Joint Strike Fighter engine

[SpartanDem]

Source: The Hilll

Senate defense appropriators on Wednesday decided not to add funding for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter alternative engine.

Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) said that he decided against funding the engine made by General Electric and Rolls-Royce because he was concerned about the floor vote on the entire 2010 defense appropriations bill.

The Obama administration has threatened to veto the defense bill if funding for the second engine — which it did not request — is seen to jeopardize the entire F-35 program.

Pratt & Whitney builds the primary engine and has lobbied Congress for months, making the case it should be the only engine producer for the newest fighter jet.


Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/57865-senate-panel-denies-funding-for-fighter-engine

[Craftsman]

1. Ted Kennedy was a big booster of the second engine,

A lot of the work was being done in Mass.

[tocqueville]

2. Buy Rafales or Eurofighters

before you find yourselves without planes at all....

[unhappycamper]

3. Bummer.

I was really hoping that they would put a third engine in the works to piss off the Dems. I mean, like how bad would it be to stop the 2010 military budget?