Posted on 11/12/2010 8:58:19 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
The Joint Strike Fighter under development to replace many aircraft in all branches of the U.S. military appears to be landing late for training.
The first delivery of F-35s was expected this month at Eglin Air Force Base, where pilot and support training squadrons were formed for Air Force, Navy and Marines in April 2010. But the first two aircraft are now destined for Edwards Air Force Base in April 2011.
Joint Strike Fighter program officials told the Northwest Florida Daily News that Lockheed Martin needs additional time to make aircraft modifications to support testing.
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How many F-35’s are going to be ordered and what’s the status of the F-22 Raptor? I haven’t kept up like I should have. Thanks.
They’ll be used to do fly-overs at air shows. Not to defend this Country, Washington is commited to getting several million of its’ citizens killed off. Helping Hamas and the PLO all they can.
Lockheed needs to be fined, bigtime for this fiasco.
Makes the fools pay.
Originally, over the lifetime of the program over 2,700 F-35s were to be purchased to replace F-15s, F-16s, F/A-18s, and AV-8Bs, as well as foreign sales. That number, unsurprisingly given the history of B-2 and F-22 purchases, keeps getting revised downwards with even larger cuts looming.
F-22 production has been capped at 187 aircraft, and the last F-22 will roll off the production line in November-December 2011.
Makes the fools pay.
Yes, shame on them for attempting to advance aircraft technology into unknown territory, instead of offering a nice, safe, proven design.
Thanks, Yo-Yo
United States intends to buy a total of 2,443 F-35 aircraft.In 2007, Lockheed Martin received a multiyear contract for 60 F-22s worth a total of US$7.3 billion. The contract brought the number of F-22s on order to 183 and extended production through 2011.
Thank you Ernst....
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