By Brian Everstine April 28, 2015 If not allowed to retire the A-10, the Air Force says it will have to send F-16s to the boneyard and delay plans for the F-35 because there aren’t enough airmen to maintain both fighters. If lawmakers succeed in passing a bill requiring the Air Force to keep the […]
By Marina Malenic April 26, 2015 The Netherlands signed an agreement with Italy to provide engine maintenance for the latter’s F-35s, the Netherlands Ministry of Defence announced on 22 April. The Netherlands signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Italy in 2006 whereby Dutch F-35s would be assembled in Cameri, Italy, while Italian F-35 engine […]
By Rosalind Peterson March 11, 2014 U.S. Navy Escalates Warfare Testing in the Pacific, Atlantic & Gulf of Mexico 2013-2015 – In the above video Rosalind Peterson, on March 11, 2014, discusses the escalation and expansion of U.S. Navy Warfare Testing and the areas in which the U.S. Navy is current conducting Live-Fire Warfare Experimental Testing in the […]
By Brianna Ehley April 27, 2015 Federal auditors are once again sounding alarms over the Pentagon’s embattled F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which has soared hundreds of billions of dollars over budget. Besides being the Defense Department’s most expensive weapons program ever, countless problems with the F-35, including design and systematic issues, have continually pushed back […]
By David Axe April 25, 2015 From all the recent sounds of celebrating coming out of Washington, D.C., you might think the Pentagon’s biggest, priciest and most controversial warplane development had accelerated right past all its problems. The price tag —currently an estimated $1 trillion to design, build and operate 2,400 copies—is steadily going down. […]
By Sandra I. Erwin April 24, 2015 The subpar performance of the F-35 logistics information system has been a concern for years. But it has now drawn the attention of key lawmakers who got an earful from Joint Strike Fighter maintenance crews during a recent visit to Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. “The committee received […]
by Anthony Capaccio April 27, 2015 F-35 engines from United Technologies Corp. are proving so unreliable that U.S. plans to increase production of the fighter jet may be slowed, according to congressional auditors. Data from flight tests evaluated by the Government Accountability Office show the reliability of engines from the company’s Pratt & Whitney unit […]
By Brian Everstine April 15, 2015 Decision-makers on Capitol Hill have lost sight of the full mission set of the F-35, and instead have focused on its inability to fully replicate the A-10 in close air support, the head of the Joint Strike Fighter program said Tuesday. The F-35 cannot do close air support as […]
By Brian Everstine April 15, 2015 The F-35’s highly touted, next-generation software system designed to detail maintenance issues on the jet is plagued with problems that could lead to more delays with the jet’s development. The F-35’s Autonomic Logistics Information System is a program that a maintainer plugs into the jet, and it is expected […]
Elizabeth Murray, Free Press Staff Writer1:11 p.m. EDT April 21, 2015 WINOOSKI – Applause could be heard throughout the Winooski City Council meeting room Monday after the council unanimously approved the city’s joining as a full party to a lawsuit regarding the U.S. Air Force’s environmental impact statement of F-35 fighter jets. The decision followed […]