Lockheed: No Showstoppers In F-35 DOT&E Report (Aviation Week)

The Most Expensive Weapon Ever Built (Time)

An Australian documentary about the RAAF decision to go with the F-35:

 

Reach for the Sky

U.S. Grounds Entire F-35 Fleet Over Engine Issues (DefenseNews)

 

Engine Crack Grounds Entire Lockheed F-35 Fleet (Aviation Week)

Some history of previous JSF groundings and F135 problems here (JSF Nieuws.nl)

Honeywell To Test Some F-35 Parts After Smoke Incident (Reuters/Aviation Week)

Australia Begins Super Hornet Study As F-35 Slide Continues (Aviation Week)

I think these comments are worth to be registred:

http://www.informationdissemination.net/2013/02/my-f-35-question.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+InformationDissemination+%28Information+Dissemination%29

Basically the points are on:

Quote:

•The surveillance capabilities of the F-35 and associated systems are so impressive that the politically problematic aspect of BVR engagement disappears.

•The services expect to be able to muscle civilians into accepting their preferred ROE (perhaps using the F-35 as a cudgel in this effort).

•The integration of technological means with political ends has not been fully worked out.

•Some of the above.

Pratt Rules Out Worst-Case Cause For F-35 Blade Crack (Reuters/Aviation Week)

P&W to test upgraded F135 this year (Flight Global)

Looking beyond F-35 (Air Force Magazine)

Pentagon F-35 program chief lashes Lockheed, Pratt (Reuters)

Contractors Push Back on JSF Criticism (DefenseNews)

Comments on F-35 Builders a ‘Shot Across the Bow,’ U.S. General Says (DefenseNews)

More F-35 turbulence (Time, Battleland blog)

 

OTE report, 15 February 2013 (via POGO)