8,000 fleet hours seems low to me. Are we really building aircraft with a lifespan of 7 years?
8000 hours was the projected life. Testing is showing in fact the service life may be around 2000h! For comparison, the F15 has a service life of 20,000 hours. Roughly 10 times the F35. Wow. That’s a bombshell report.
The initial ones only last 2,100.