By Sean Kennedy March 2, 2020 Members of Congress have done their utmost to ignore the mounting problems in Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II program. In the fiscal 2019 Department of Defense Operational Test and Evaluation Annual Report, released to the public Jan. 30, it was revealed that testers consider the “accuracy of the gun, as […]
By: Oriana Pawlyk for Military.com, Sept. 27, 2019 The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will not complete its already-delayed formal operational test phase this fall because of a setback in the testing process, according to a source close to the program. While the F-35 Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) was supposed to be complete by late summer, a source […]
By: Mike Dougherty for VTDigger, Sept. 13, 2019 The first two F-35s in the Vermont Air National Guard’s new fleet of fighter jets are scheduled to arrive in Burlington by next Friday. But a coalition of protesters who have fought the basing for years continues to press the military to change its mind. NBC5 first […]
By: Kevin McCallum for Seven Days, Aug. 29, 2019 Opponents of the decision to base F-35 fighter jets in Burlington say newly obtained documents suggest the aircraft will likely be far louder than the U.S. Air Force and Vermont Air National Guard have previously acknowledged. With the arrival of the next generation fighters just weeks […]
By: Anthony Capaccio for Bloomberg, May 11, 2019 The crash of a U.S. Marine Corps F-35 that temporarily grounded the entire fleet of next-generation jets in 2018 was caused by a manufacturing defect in a fuel tube made by a United Technologies subcontractor, according to congressional investigators. The defect “caused an engine fuel tube to rupture during […]
By M. Alex Johnson, Staff Writer, NBC News Hundreds of problems continue to plague the troubled Joint Strike Fighter, potentially calling into question the basic performance and reliability of the costliest weapons program in U.S. history, the Defense Department’s inspector general charges in a new report. In a 16-month investigation that began in February 2012, […]
Sunday, July 14th, 2013 South Burlington VT In his Op-Ed, Steve Allen writes, “The Air Force recently released a revised Draft Environmental Impact Statement, relating to proposed basing of the F-35s in Vermont, and are soliciting input from the public until July 15. There are passionate advocates on both sides of this debate and everyone […]
Friday, July 5th, 2013 Burlington VT Film documentarian, Corey Hendrickson, released this short 3 minute 12 second excerpt which details the recent F-35 Sound Demonstration directed at Burlington Vermont Mayor Miro Weinberger and Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin respective offices in Vermont’s largest city and the state capitol. Click here to watch the video excerpt. Please […]
Monday, June 3rd, 2013 Burlington VT (sorry folks I missed this earlier but very well crafted article by journalist Dylan Kelley) Vermont Commons Dylan Kelley reports on the recent Citizens’ Hearing held to a capacity crowd at Burlington’s Unitarian Universalist Church (atop Church Street) on May 30th, 2013. Click here for the complete article. An […]
Thursday, June 20th, 2013 Washington DC Journalist Sydney J Freedberg Jr. reports “Yesterday, at a subcommittee hearing attended by just half a dozen Senators, the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer made a blunt admission: The military’s most expensive program, the stealthy F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, has been hacked and the stolen data used by America’s adversaries. Under Secretary Frank Kendall didn’t […]