F-35 Joint Strike Fighter News, Videos and pics Thread

Helius

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RobertC said:
Norwegians having operational availability difficulties (maintenance cost and personnel) with their F-35s
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If the collection of sensitive data was truly a revelation, then Norway's military leadership is either incompetent* or else failed to do due diligence. The most cursory examination of ALIS would revealed the nature of the data being sent to Lockheed Martin.

*this is most likely based on the Accident Investigation Board of Norway’s report
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They made it sound like such a surprise. Which country was it again whose navy helped the CIA blow up Nord Stream?
 
SteelBird

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F-35 also has "heart-attack" problem? Reported by Fu Qiaoxiao that F-35's cooling system over used that leads to shorten life span and will require a big sum of money for overhaul in near future.
 
Broccoli

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Finnish defence equipment maker Patria and US aerospace firm Lockheed Martin have signed the first Memorandum of Agreement for Patria to assemble fuselages of F-35 fighter jets.

In a press release issued on Monday, Patria's F-35 Chief Program Officer Petri Hepola called the agreement "a significant milestone for Finland's F-35 programme and Patria."

"The large-scale assembly of 400 forward fuselages will take Patria's industrial capabilities to the next level. The initial cooperation with Lockheed Martin has worked extremely well, which has built a great basis also for the future collaboration," Hepola said.
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Seems like a make work program. Typical government pork. It makes zero economic sense to assemble parts of the fuselage of the F-35 in Finland only to have to ship them afterwards to where the assembly sites are (Italy, Japan, and Texas). Heck, even Iceland would likely be closer to where the production is.
 
Broccoli

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gelgoog said:
Seems like a make work program. Typical government pork. It makes zero economic sense to assemble parts of the fuselage of the F-35 in Finland only to have to ship them afterwards to where the assembly sites are (Italy, Japan, and Texas). Heck, even Iceland would likely be closer to where the production is.
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Patria already makes parts for Airbus and other companies. Patria is also getting capability to do serious overhauls (as was requirment in HX program) for F-35 meaning that for example Norwegians can send their F-35's into Finland instead of Italy, etc.

It´s better to have multiple places to maintain planes than just one.
 
99PLAAFBalloons

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This title is awful, and the article itself is a mishmash of random stuff rather than an explanation of why deliveries have dropped

Lockheed expect deliveries to drop to 100-120 F-35s this year from a 147-153 projection as the Pentagon is not accepting the TR-3 jets until the test program is complete. Note that Lockheed haven't stopped making them, they're warehousing them off the production line so they can be quickly delivered as soon as testing is finished. Meanwhile, they haven't stopped making and delivering non TR-3 jets

The guy that wrote this has basically read the
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and tried to pass it off as their own. If he kept reading a little more, he'd have seen this:
“There won’t be a production lag,” Malave explained. “There’ll be just a delivery lag based on the completion of the software integration testing that has to be done in the air.”
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