F-35A - Inauguration Towing. Photo from WikimediaPentagon Watchdog Sinks Fangs Into JSF -- ARES/Aviation Week
Relax, JSF fans. I'm not going to bash the program here.
I'm standing to one side and letting the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation do the job for me. [AWIN subscribers go here for our story on the report. To see the USAF chief of staff's response, see our story here.]
DOT&E reports are not classified but are not issued online. Still, the Fiscal 2009 report on JSF is the most pessimistic official study of the program to be published so far.
Its headline conclusion is that even with favorable test results, more test aircraft and more funding, initial operational test and evaluation "could be" finished by early-to-mid 2016 - 18 months behind today's schedule.
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