Thursday, June 20, 2019

F-35 news roundup

There's a great selection of F-35 news over at Lawrence's place.  Not all is well with the F-35 program.

4 comments:

Brad said...

Those sound like relatively minor problems. As I understand it, the situation is much worse. Consider that the F-35 is around 10 years old - and it's readiness rate is still terrible. That means that there are major, not minor, problems.

Publicly, the readiness rate is "under 50%", which would be awful for a plane that ought to be mature by now. Scuttlebutt has readiness under 20% - if true, that's disastrous.

Aesop said...

Waitwaitwait:

You mean all those F-35 pilots hand-picked by the Air Farce to tell us how great ("Better than sex!") it is might have been...testi-lying???

https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/400x/63594749/im-completely-surprised-this-is-my-shocked-face.jpg

Hey, HBO, I feel a sequel to "Pentagon Wars", with a self-writing script, could be sitting in your inbox about now.

Glen Filthie said...

Given the state of the mass media and the average journalist - I'd only believe the pilot himself.

Having said that I am personally convinced that the F22 is the real champ that needs to be put into play.

Old NFO said...

F-35 has MAJOR problems across ALL variants...