via Otawa Citizen.
And this plane is suppose to go into service with the Marine Corps next year? In name only. This turkey will be a hangar queen...not flying off the decks of amphibs!
Lockheed Martin’s F-35 aircraft has not yet demonstrated sufficient reliability improvements, the Bloomberg news service is reporting. That verdict comes from the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer, Frank Kendall, who talked to reporters after an F-35 management conference.Nuff said.
In total 104 F-35s have been delivered for testing, flights and training.
In June 2014, Kendall told U.S. lawmakers that “we’re not where we need to be on reliability right now.” The F-35 program is “lagging our own goals by a significant margin.”
“I would probably pretty much make the same comment today,” Kendall said, adding that there’s “some marginal evidence of improvement but it’s not enough.”
And this plane is suppose to go into service with the Marine Corps next year? In name only. This turkey will be a hangar queen...not flying off the decks of amphibs!
