Saturday, October 28, 2017

Not A Good Week For The F-35

A electronics technician removes a broken circuit board from a piece of the F-35A's communications systems during depot-level maintenance. USAF

The Drive/War Zone: The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program Had A Pretty Rough Week

Reports of hypoxia, cyber security concerns, and the need for cost review, followed the leak of highly critical review.

Whatever you might think of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, it’s safe to say that the Joint Program Office hasn’t had a particularly good week. Reports of hypoxia, cyber security concerns, and the need for a major cost review followed the appearance of a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit, detailing significant and increasingly expensive maintenance issues, which leaked its way to the press ahead of an official public release.

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WNU Editor:  With time the kinks will be worked out. But I think it is an understatement to say that the F-35 has not performed as well as the original supporters of the jet said it would.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why is a picture of an f35 circuit board not secret?

War News Updates Editor said...

Anon. I said the same thing to myself when I posted it.

Jay Farquharson said...

Part of the F-35's "Concurrence" design is to use Off The Shelf components,

as a result, a lot of the computer tech is "grey box" boards, sometimes hardened and MILSPEC, sometimes exactly the same as in your PC.