"Pushing out the full-rate production determination means that the Milestone C decision will fall to President-elect Joe Biden’s Administration.
"The continued failure to complete IOT&E - and in turn trigger a full-rate production decision - means that question marks will continue to hang over the viability of the jet..."
1 posted on
01/01/2021 6:47:15 AM PST by
PIF
To: PIF
Don’t worry. The Chicoms will continue production.
To: PIF
Just move production to china and biteme and the whore will approve an unlimited supply.
3 posted on
01/01/2021 6:51:51 AM PST by
freedumb2003
(No matter what, resist and stop the agenda of biteme and the whore)
To: PIF
Trump has a sharper pencil than Biden
4 posted on
01/01/2021 6:52:33 AM PST by
mo
("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
To: PIF
On one hand, it probably falls short of its requirements. On the other hand, they are stuck with it.
Modern weapons systems are sufficiently complex that they will probably only reach their potential years, if not decades, after deployment.
5 posted on
01/01/2021 6:53:09 AM PST by
rbg81
(Truth is stranger than fiction)
To: PIF
The leftists at The Drive have never liked the F-35. This is par for the course. Better to have obsolete platforms than expensive new ones. Unionized unelected lords and masters civil servants and welfare recipients need bigger chunks of the budget. Reductions in defense procurement could fill their need for cash.
7 posted on
01/01/2021 6:58:56 AM PST by
Zhang Fei
(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
To: PIF
The evaluators will never accept thousands of hours in real flight ops or combat operations in place of formal testing. Back in 1991 we had a new system that participated in Operations Desert Shield/Storm. The evaluators told us that warfare was not a suitable substitute for operational testing.
To: PIF
after the Joint Program Office had deleted a number of test points in order to meet its goals LOL.
Can't meet your goals?
Lower the bar!
18 posted on
01/01/2021 7:34:01 AM PST by
grobdriver
(BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
To: fatman6502002
21 posted on
01/01/2021 7:38:45 AM PST by
Zhang Fei
(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
To: PIF
Mission Success!!
The F-35 program accomplished everything it set out to do.
It pre-empted development and full adoption of the F-22.
It diluted and spread American Tech into “partner” countries that might buy it, but might not be “partners” much longer.
27 posted on
01/01/2021 9:03:35 AM PST by
bakeneko
To: PIF
It’s been a 20 year failure. They should just end it.
34 posted on
01/01/2021 10:35:10 AM PST by
maddog55
((the only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!))
To: PIF
This issue inspired me to renew my AFA subscription.
It’s worth it just for the magazine.
37 posted on
01/01/2021 6:54:04 PM PST by
Fury
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