Pentagon’s Office Of Testing And Evaluation: 'The F-35 Has Too Many Bugs'

Patrick Tucker, Defense One: The F-35’s Terrifying Bug List

The Pentagon’s top testing official has weighed and measured the F-35 and found it wanting.

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, the most expensive military program in the world, is even more broken than previously thought. The jet can’t tell old parts from new ones, randomly prevents user logins, and trying to eject out of it will likely result in serious neck injury and maybe death. A Pentagon office is warning that the plane is being rushed into service.

The Pentagon’s office of testing and evaluation on Monday released a report detailing dozens of major problems, or “deficiencies” with the aircraft. The report follows the release of a December memo by Michael Gilmore, the Department of Defense’s director for Operational Test and Evaluation, or OT&E. The report goes on to question the logic of pushing other governments to purchase large blocks of the aircraft until the issues are fixed.

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Update #1: Unready for War: America’s F-35 Gets a Bad Report Card (National Interest)
Update #2: This is what regret looks like for the Pentagon -- Amanda Macias and Armin Rosen, Business Insider

WNU Editor: The Pentagon's report on the F-35 is here.