How much of that is for ‘green’ fuel? (Hopefully, none.)
How much of that is for ‘green’ fuel? (Hopefully, none.)
It makes more sense with the HTML tags intact...
At the rate we’re going, there probably won’t be a USAF by 2070.
2070? More likely obsolete by 2030.
Absolutely! Since the Eff-35’s flight hours have been revised to Zero, there’s no doubt it’ll have a long life in an Aerospace museum as an stunning example of The world’s Most expensive military jet project failure.
RE: “The projected life of the F-35 Lightning II has been extended by six years to 2070 after the US military services tweaked the number of flight hours their fleets should log before retirement.”
‘Single engine’ front line fighter jet. No thanks.
They’ll all have been shot down by Russian and Chinese ripoffs of the discontinued F-22...long before.
Interesting.
Let us see.
The F-35 is not in wide spread usage. It is being supported by the contractor. No F-35 has been publically identified as a lead aircraft. And they are projecting what?
Without being in widespread usage you have no idea as to how sustained environmental conditions affect the aircraft, its maintenance support, and the people involved in the program. Many interesting stories in B-52s about an alert facility. Being maintained by “blue suiters” is totally different than being maintained by contractor personnel. Saw that up close and personally when my squadron was sent from Thailand to the CONUS in 1976. Every aircraft type must have a “lead aircraft’ one that is flown harder and more often than any other tail number. It is the only way to accurately identify medium and long term maintenance issues. It is also the only way to identify accurate wartime support requirements.
The F-35 is too new to have done any of these things. Guess the program needed some good PR and it got it. Good luck future F-35 troops.
They might have some of the bugs worked out by 2070.
Easy to extend the service life when you don’t start service.
What a piece of junk.
What a farce.
Anti-F35 fodder. It’s not been a great success, but it’s far from the junkpile the clowns make it out to be.
It’ll have unlimited life if it doesn’t fly.