September 18, 201213 yr Author From http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/senior-f-35-official-warns-on-software-breakdowns-relationship-crisis-376590/ [excerpt] Senior F-35 official warns on software breakdowns, relationship crisisBy: Zach Rosenberg Washington DC The future of the Lockheed Martin F-35 programme is at risk over software concerns and a breakdown in the relationships between the contractor and the government, says the deputy chief of the F-35 joint programme office (JPO).
September 19, 201213 yr Author From http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/09/18/lockheed-fighter-idINL1E8KHBLY20120918 [excerpt] Bogdan said the program also had work to do on the F-35C-model being developed for use on board Navy aircraft carriers. He said a reworked tailhook system succeeded only five of eight times during flight tests earlier this year, but said he was confident that the issue would be fixed.
September 20, 201213 yr Author From http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/AW_09_17_2012_p58-492718.xml&p=1 [excerpt] F-35 Bay Presents Challenges To WeaponsBy Amy Butler September 17, 2012 Developers of the multinational F-35 are finally embarking on a multi-year campaign to demonstrate the single-engine stealthy fighter's ability to dispatch weapons. But uncertainties loom about the impact of internal-carriage requirements on those weapons' effectiveness. Interactive planned weapons chart for the F-35 here: http://www.aviationweek.com/Portals/aweek/media/f35weaps/1-JSF_Weapons.html
September 21, 201213 yr The chart freezes on my new computer screen, I'm thinking it can be to the F-35 level technology :lol: Interactive planned weapons chart for the F-35 here: http://www.aviationw...SF_Weapons.html
September 27, 201213 yr Author The chart freezes on my new computer screen, I'm thinking it can be to the F-35 level technology :lol: I think the chart is dated anyway ... it refers to both the UK PGB and SDB Phase I as being under development, and also references the 426 USG fuel tank, which I understood had been dropped.
September 27, 201213 yr Author Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) report on the Management of Australia’s Air Combat Capability—F-35A Joint Strike Fighter Acquisition http://www.anao.gov.au/~/media/Files/Audit%20Reports/2012%202013/Audit%20Report%206/201213%20Audit%20Report%20No%206%20OCRed.pdf
October 2, 201213 yr Author From http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/AW_10_01_2012_p58-500608.xml [excerpt] Pentagon Should Investigate Fighter Options Beyond The F-35Source: Aviation Week & Space Technology October 01, 2012 In October 2001, when the U.S. Defense Department awarded Lockheed Martin the contract to develop the Joint Strike Fighter, it looked like the deal of the century for the company and its customer.
October 2, 201213 yr Author This (and other recent) articles re JSF got me thinking about something else I came across recently. A 1992 RAND report entitled Maintaining Future Military Aircraft Design. and a chart adapted from that report: The Decline in Military Aircraft Design (pdf) which (I think) nicely describes part of went wrong with JSF.
October 2, 201213 yr Author One of the other recent articles to which I was referring ... Chicago Tribune [excerpt] Pentagon seeks competition for sustainment of Lockheed F-35Andrea Shalal-Esa Reuters 7:58 p.m. CDT, September 28, 2012 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Friday moved toward bringing in other companies to operate and maintain its most expensive weapons program, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a step that could reduce revenues for the current prime contractor, Lockheed Martin Corp.
October 17, 201213 yr Author From Flight Global [excerpt] F-35A releases first air-launched weaponBy Craig Hoyle London Lockheed Martin's F-35A Joint Strike Fighter has performed its first in-flight weapons release, with conventional take-off and landing test aircraft AF-1 having dropped a JDAM-series GBU-31 908kg (2,000lb) bomb on 16 October.
November 2, 201213 yr Author From Defense Aerospace [excerpt] F-35 Flight Test Update 9(Source: Lockheed Martin Code One blog; posted Oct. 30, 2012) The F-35 Flight Test Update concluded with the record-setting month of June 2012 with the Integrated Test Force completing 114 test flights and 1,118 test points.
November 7, 201213 yr Author From Wired's Danger Room blog [excerpt] Lockheed's Dubious Claim: Stealth Fighter Will Get Stealthier With AgeBy David Axe November 6, 2012 There have been a lot of sketchy claims made about the long-delayed, over-budget F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, history's most expensive weapon program. But this one takes the cake. According to Stephen O'Bryan, a vice president at F-35-maker Lockheed Martin, the radar-evading jet fighter will actually get stealthier over time - without any upgrades.
November 11, 201213 yr I'm not sure if this is a propaganda payed blog or not, but can be another counter-reference: http://whythef35.blogspot.com.es/2012/11/usaf-pilots-and-maintainers-give-f-35.html And apparently, the F-35 is like any other computer ruled device: "The system right now is behaving as advertised, [although] occasionally, we will have some issues with it on the ground," he says. However, this is usually easily fixed by shutting the aircraft down and then restarting it.
November 12, 201213 yr "The system right now is behaving as advertised, [although] occasionally, we will have some issues with it on the ground," he says. However, this is usually easily fixed by shutting the aircraft down and then restarting it. That doesn't sound like a very convienient solution and I'm thinking that pilots who are trusting their lives to this multi-million dollar machine are not going to want to shut the A/C down to clear a problem and then restart it as their adversary is releasing their payloads.
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