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Last August, the nonprofit Project On Government Oversight (POGO) said that senior officials developing the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter for the US armed forces — the most expensive military
program of all time — are covering up dangerous flaws in the plane instead of fixing them. In particular, the Center for Defense Information at POGO obtained a document showing how F-35
officials were re-categorizing rather than fixing major design flaws to be able to claim they had completed the program’s development phase without having to pay overruns for badly needed
fixes. Moreover, a report on the F-35 last year from the US Government Accountability Office showed that the aircraft still had 111 Category One deficiencies that may cause death, severe
injury, loss or major damage and that critically restricted the combat readiness capabilities of armed forces using the aircraft, POGO noted. READ MORE: 'F-35 IS NOT READY TO FLY',
US DEFENCE COMPANIES 'BUY POLITICIANS' – JOURNALIST