FILE PHOTO: A Lockheed Martin F-35 aircraft is seen at the ILA Air Show in Berlin
19FortyFive: Problem: Only 56 Percent of F-35 Stealth Fighters Are Ready for Battle
If you are an F-35 fan for its all-around, go-anywhere fighting ability, you will be concerned about this.
F-35 Can't Fight?
According to a defense official at a joint program office, American F-35s across the service branches are only 56 percent ready for battle.
The Department of Defense wants to get this number up to at least an average of 64 percent rate of combat readiness within the next year, but that is a glaring shortcoming for the program's future.
If there is to be conflict with China in a fight over Taiwan, America needs every F-35 it can muster to dominate the skies.
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WNU Editor: The Pentagon is still buying more F-35s .... Pentagon awards $7.8 billion F-35 contract to Lockheed Martin (Reuters).
This program has been a financial disaster from the get go. Would have been better off with more upgraded raptors
ReplyDeleteThis is something that has characterized the US military for the last 30 years. Bigger, better, more expensive tech at the cost of maintaining what we already have. In a real war, not just a conflict, this will bite us in the ass big time. Army, navy airforce has this problem, a huge conglomeration of short-sighted tards who greenlight shitshows like LCS program, shitcan already developed programs like Seawolf and F-22, then neglect developed programs (or cancel them) as they slowly waste away. It almost seems like they want to lose the next war.
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