VIDEO: F-35's Plan B is "try harder"

Eight months ago, Lieutenant General Terry Robling took over the US Marine Corps aviation branch. Almost immediately, Robling's most critical programme -- the short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) Lockheed Martin F-35B -- was placed on probation and threatened by then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates with cancellation. This morning, Robling spoke publicly for the first time about the status of the F-35B's five engineering problems and why the Marine Corps has no other options. The Marines specially asked the event's organiser, the Navy League, to invite the news media. And so we came, wielding cameras.