Elizabeth Murray April 30, 2015 The City of Winooski officially filed Wednesday to join a lawsuit regarding an environmental impact statement issued by the U.S. Air Force for the F-35 fighter jets. The City Council had voted unanimously 10 days prior to join the U.S. District Court lawsuit after residents who voted on Town Meeting […]
By KELLY HUMPHREY April 28, 2015 EGLIN AFB — What a difference a few years make. In 2008, the city of Valparaiso sued the Air Force over access to information about the proposed stationing of F-35s at Eglin Air Force Base. At that time, the city was concerned about the possible negative impact of high […]
By Brian Everstine April 30, 2014 The House Armed Services Committee’s version of the fiscal 2015 defense authorization bill ignores the biggest budget fight of the year: the Air Force’s proposal to retire the A-10 attack jet and U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. The tactical air and land subcommittee’s markup of the bill, released Wednesday, does not […]
By Brian Everstine April 22, 2015 The Air Force wants a less costly next-generation aircraft for close air support to replace the A-10, but there is no funding available for it and there likely will not be in the future, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh said Wednesday . Given a better budget environment, the […]
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 […]