Stop buying Turkey’s F-35 parts, lawmakers tell DoD
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging the Pentagon to more quickly stop buying F-35 fighter jet components from Turkey.
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sixty-three (63) F-35A Conventional TakeOff and Landing (CTOL) aircraft, forty-two (42) F-35B Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) aircraft, and one hundred ten (110) Pratt and Whitney F135 engines (includes 5 spares).
It's pre-approval for a possible sale. Whether or not Japan actually places the order however...
The Navy plans to field its AGM-88E AARGM on F-35, and the Air Force is considering the weapon, as well.
"The need for a structural modification.." why was this not in the original builds... more cups of gravy off the Gravy train.The Navy plans to field its AGM-88E AARGM on F-35, and the Air Force is considering the weapon, as well.
Lockheed to Retrofit F-35s for Suppression/Destruction of Enemy Air Defenses Role | Air & Space Forces Magazine
Lockheed Martin won a $26.7M contract to develop a structural mod for the F-35 to enhance its Suppression/Destruction of Enemy Air Defenses capability.www.airforcemag.com
I didn't realize the USAF was buying AARGM-ER? I thought it was adopting the similar SiAW instead?
The F-35 might finally get JASSM integration as part of the Republican's virus relief plan.
good lawd
its hard to believe there's that many F-35s already delivered in both the US and globally.
I've always felt like it's been in development for so long, as well as me being influenced by the generally slow procurement of other similar 90s aircraft..
They do indeed, nose gear door looks like the inside of a X(F)-32 inletKorea unveals CGI of new light carrier design
and it seems they intend to use some F-35Bs on it!
btw is it me or from a distance it looks like the X-32?
The Pentagon is in the early stages of replacing the troubled Lockheed Martin F-35’s autonomous logistics system with a new, cloud-based network, and hopes to get it up and running by the end of 2022.
The Operational Data Integrated Network (ODIN) is intended to reduce workload and increase F-35 mission readiness rates by using a smaller, deployable, commercial and cloud-native architecture. Right now, F-35 users operate the Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS) that collects inflight information for maintainers to predict part failures.
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ODIN initial delivery is planned for September 2021.