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Un para-freno anche per gli F-35A olandesi .....

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The Netherlands will join Norway on the development of the brake chute for the Lockheed Martin F-35, the Norwegian government confirmed last week.
In a 25 November bill presented to the Norwegian Parliament, the Dutch government agreed to pay Norway 96 million NOK ($11.4 million) to cover their share of development costs.
That cost share will allow the Norwegian government to redirect those funds to cover general expenses related to the Norwegian acquisition of the F-35, according to a post by the minister of defence.
Fonte: FlightGlobal ..... "Dutch join Norwegians on F-35 brake chute development" .....

Kampflybloggen ..... "How international cooperation saved us NOK 96 million in 2016." .....
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La Gran Bretagna prosegue nel suo programma di omologazione di nuove armi ...
Raytheon Systems' Paveway IV laser-guided bomb has been dropped from a Lockheed Martin F-35B, paving the way for integration of the weapon on the UK’s future Joint Strike Fighter fleet.
Carried out as part of a UK effort, the test took place at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in California using a US Marine Corps-operated F-35B.
It was used to collect data on the interaction between the munition and the aircraft’s on-board computers and will be followed by live firings in the coming months.
Fonte: FlightGlobal ..... "PICTURE: Paveway IV dropped from F-35" .....
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Altre basi della ANG candidate ad ospitare gli F-35A .....
​The Air Force named five installations as candidates to become the second and third Air National Guard homes for the F-35A.
They are:
Dannelly Field AGS, Ala.
Gowen Field AGS, Idaho
Jacksonville AGS, Fla.
Selfridge ANGB, Mich.
and:
Truax AGS, Wisc.
..... according to a Wednesday release.
Fonte ..... "USAF Announces F-35A Air National Guard Candidate Bases" .....
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Gilmore ..... la guerra delle contestazioni continua .....
Pentagon officials have been preparing a misleading assessment of progress on Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35, the costliest U.S. weapons program, the Defense Department’s chief tester warned.
“If not changed, the existing responses would at best be considered misleading and at worst, prevarications,” Michael Gilmore, director of operational test and evaluation, wrote in an internal memo criticizing the draft response to questions about F-35 testing from Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain.
Gilmore’s memo is the latest example of his vocal doubts about the F-35’s performance in key tests.
His critiques are at odds with the Pentagon’s narrative that the program is on course after earlier problems.

Fonte ..... "Misleading F-35 Answers Drafted by Pentagon, Testing Chief Says" .....
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E' arrivato il castigamatti ..... :violent1:

Dopo Boeing ..... ora è la volta di Lockheed Martin .....
The F-35 program and cost is out of control.
Billions of dollars can and will be saved on military (and other) purchases after January 20th.

Su Twitter ..... .....

..... il neo-presidente degli Stati Uniti spara a zero, sul programma JSF ..... e le azioni di LM calano .....
Shares in Lockheed Martin have fallen after President-elect Donald Trump said he would cut the cost of its F-35 Joint Strike Fighter after taking office.
He tweeted: "F-35 program and cost is out of control. Billions of dollars can and will be saved on military (and other) purchases after January 20."
The F-35 is the Pentagon's most expensive weapons programme, costing about $400bn (£316bn).
Lockheed shares were down 4.2% at $248.51 in morning trading.
Fonte ..... "Lockheed Martin shares suffer after Trump F-35 tweet" .....
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Lara Seligman ..... sul blog Ares di AW&ST sul tweet di Trump .....
Donald Trump left the collective defense community quaking in its boots last week after he threatened to cancel Boeing's new Air Force one.
Now he's going after another massive aerospace firm, slamming Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) for "out of control" costs.
"The F-35 program and cost is out of control," Trump tweeted early Dec. 12.
"Billions of dollars can be saved on military (and other) purchases after Jan. 20."
The JSF is the second big-ticket defense item Trump has slammed in the last week in an apparent campaign to rein in contractors and costly military programs.
The tweet comes just 24 hours after Trump hit similar notes on F-35 during a Dec. 11 TV interview.
"Look at the F-35 program with the money, the hundreds of billions of dollars," Trump said on Fox news.
"It's out of control."
..... "Trump Slams 'Out Of Control' F-35" .....

..... e sulla caduta in borsa delle azioni di LM ..... "Lockheed Stock Drops Sharply After Trump's F-35 Tweet" .....

FoxBusiness ..... "Trump Targets F-35 Program in Latest Dig on Defense Spending" .....
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Un bersaglio ..... preso di mira .....

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FlightGlobal ..... "Trump tweet takes aim at F-35" .....

DefenseNews ..... "Trump Makes the 'Out Of Control' F-35 His Latest Target" .....
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Bé, su questo vai a dargli torto, se ti riesce...
"The curve is flattening: we can start lifting restrictions now" = "The parachute has slowed our rate of descent: we can take it off now!"
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Valerio Ricciardi ha scritto:Bé, su questo vai a dargli torto, se ti riesce ...
Eee si ..... dici bene, caro, dici bene ..... come era solito declamare un mio vecchio capo ufficio .....

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Trump vs. LM ..... parla Jeff Babione .....

..... "Lockheed Martin Message Concerning President Elect Trump’s F-35 Comments" .....
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richelieu ha scritto: parla Jeff Babione
OT: un cognome cosi, da noi farebbe ridere... :mrgreen:
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sidew ha scritto:
richelieu ha scritto: parla Jeff Babione
OT: un cognome cosi, da noi farebbe ridere ... :mrgreen:
E pensare che Jeff potrebbe essere di origini italiane ..... :wink:
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I primi siamo stati noi ..... anche se alla chetichella ..... :mrgreen:
On Dec. 12, whilst several Israeli and international media outlets focused on the delivery of the first F-35I “Adir” to Nevatim airbase (delayed by some 6 hours because of fog) highlighting how Israel had just become “the first country after the US” to get the new plane, far from the spotlight, the 13° Gruppo (Squadron) of the 32° Stormo (Wing) of the Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force, ItAF) received its first two F-35A Lightning II, becoming the very first country to take delivery of the 5th generation stealth jet outside of the U.S.
Noteworthy, the delivery flight was carried out by two Italian military pilots (the Israeli planes were flown by Lockheed Martin pilots) who flew their two JSFs (Joint Strike Fighters) to Amendola, where the aircraft landed in the early afternoon on Monday.
Indeed, whereas the arrival of the first Israeli or Dutch F-35s got a significant media coverage (with constant updates, live streaming on social media, etc.), the Italian Air Force has kept a very “low profile” about its achievements with the F-35 so far.
Fonte: The Aviationist ..... "Italy has become the first country to operate the F-35 outside of the U.S." .....
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Dal 2021 gli F-35B dei Marines opereranno bordo delle nuove portaerei britanniche .....

..... "US F-35Bs to Fly on UK Carriers" .....
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Gli F-35A ad Amendola ..... il Ministero della Difesa rompe il silenzio .....

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Lunedì 12 dicembre, i primi due velivoli F-35 italiani sono atterrati presso il 32° Stormo di Amendola (FG), unità recentemente ricostituita per accogliere il Joint Strike Fighter.
Amendola è la prima base in Europa ad acquisire i velivoli prodotti ed assemblati in Italia presso la FACO (Final Assembly and Check Out) di Cameri (NO) e l'evento rappresenta il raggiungimento di un importante obiettivo per la difesa e sicurezza del Paese.
..... "Amendola: assegnati al 32° Stormo i primi due velivoli JSF" .....
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Intanto ..... negli USA continua il litigio fra DoD e LM su LRIP 9 e 10 ..... :boxing:

"Unilateral negotiations still in play for F-35 contract" .....
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Il 'generalissimo' risponde alle critiche di Trump .....
Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 fighter jet program is essential for the security of the United States and its allies, a Pentagon official said on Monday, looking to defend the program a week after President-elect Donald Trump criticized it for delays and cost overruns.
"The F-35 program and cost is out of control," Trump wrote on Twitter last week, echoing campaign promises to cut waste in federal spending.
"Billions of dollars can and will be saved on military (and other) purchases after January 20th."
Speaking with reporters on Monday, Air Force Lieutenant General Chris Bogdan, who runs the F-35 program for the Pentagon, said that if he had an opportunity to speak with the Trump transition team, he would tell them that the program is now under control after years of delays.
Fonte: Reuters ..... "F-35 chief defends program after Trump criticism" .....
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Dopo i corrosivi tweets sui costi 'fuori controllo' dei programmi militari ..... Trump ha incontrato i dirigenti delle industrie interessate ed alcuni alti ufficiali di Marina ed Aviazione (fra i quali Bogdan ..... capo nonché strenuo difensore del programma JSF) .....

FlightGlobal: "Trump vows to slash F-35 costs after CEO meeting" .....

Bloomberg: "Trump Summons Contractors to Mar-a-Lago Over Spending" .....

Lara Seligman sul blog 'Ares' di AW&ST: "Trump Meets With Boeing, Lockheed CEOs, DOD Brass" .....
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La minaccia ..... ..... :twisted:

Mi sa tanto che il neo presidente non sia rimasto del tutto soddisfatto dell' incontro con la dirigenza di LM .....

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Trump ..... cominciano a fioccare i commenti .....

FlightGlobal ..... "Trump calls Boeing to price Super Hornet against F-35" .....

DefenseNews ..... "Trump Tells Twitter He Wants A Super Hornet With F-35 Capabilities" .....
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In estate gli F-35A dell' USAF in Europa .....
The Air Force’s top civilian on Monday hinted the service could deploy a number of F-35As to Europe as early as this summer.
“Now that the F-35 has been declared combat capable, we will deploy our newest fighter to Europe in the not too distant future,” said Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James during a speech at the Atlantic Council.
“Matter of fact, if I were a betting woman, I wouldn’t at all be surprised if the F-35 didn’t make an appearance, perhaps, next summer. The unique combination of stealth, situational and sensor fusion will play an important role in reassuring allies and providing deterrence.”
The trip to Europe would be the first operational overseas deployment of the Air Force's A-model, which officially reached initial combat capability in August.

Fonte: DefenseNews ..... "US Air Force F-35s Likely Coming Soon to Europe".....
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FlightGlobal commenta, con un articolo redazionale, le recenti uscite del presidente-eletto Trump .....

..... "OPINION: Trump's unfriendly fire threatens F-35" .....
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Fantastico che i primi siano i nostri. Avrei dato maggiore pubblicità alla cosa, con servizi ai telegiornali e sui giornali. Invece, a parte qualche appassionato, nessuno è venuto a conoscenza della cosa.
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Intanto ..... il generale a riposo Larry O. Spencer, attuale presidente della Air Force Association (AFA), prende posizione e, ovviamente, difende il programma .....
Once we canceled production of the F-22, the F-35 became the only game in town.
However, we now find the F-35 being the target of budgetary gimmicks from slowing down the production rate or buying fewer aircraft with a promise to increase production later.
At this rate, we will retire early production F-35s as we accept later production aircraft in the future.
This is no way to run national defense of the greatest country on earth.
This is the only US fifth-generation stealth aircraft in production.
The Chinese and Russians, combined, have multiple fifth-generation aircraft in production with more on the drawing board.
The F-35 program’s importance is unparalleled by anything else in the defense industry.
Our enemies are not waiting.
Fonte: DefenseNews ..... "The F-35: We Need the Numbers and We Need Them Now" .....
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Ulteriori possibili complicazioni ..... :(
The Pentagon’s head of acquisition is preparing to alert lawmakers that F-35 developmental flight tests, originally slated to end in October 2017, could extend as long as May 2018.
Should more money be needed to fund those activities, the F-35 joint program office plans to seize it from the follow-on modernization account, which would defer those activities by proxy, the head of the F-35 joint program office acknowledged on Monday.
Fonte: DefenseNews ..... "Extended F-35 Flight Testing Could Eat Into Follow-On Upgrades" .....
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Trump, F-35 e ..... Super Hornet ..... il colpo di coda della AFSec uscente .....
If US President-elect Donald Trump moves forward with trying to supplant Lockheed Martin’s F-35 with Boeing’s F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, he can expect to find opposition from the Air Force, the service’s top civilian said.
Fonte ..... "Super Hornet 'Not Interchangable' With F-35, Says US Air Force Secretary" .....
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JSF ..... cosa resta ancora da sistemare .....
Lockheed Martin’s F-35: What Is Left To Fix?

The Joint Strike Fighter: progress and problems.

Lara Seligman - Aviation Week & Space Technology (Jan. 6, 2017)

Lockheed Martin’s F-35 achieved its first international deployment and the U.S. Air Force declared its first squadron ready for war in 2016, but the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) also suffered key setbacks last year.
The world’s most expensive fighter program continues to grapple with technological challenges.
The latest version of the JSF’s internal logistics system is delayed by several months, and operational test pilots are still seeing stability issues with the warfighting software.
The Joint Program Office (JPO) has righted a quality issue with the avionics cooling lines that temporarily grounded 15 operational aircraft, but Lockheed is now racing to fix the 42 in-production aircraft that were affected.
Further, the services are dealing with fallout from two aircraft fires this year and recent issues identified in testing.
At the same time, tensions are high between Lockheed and the Pentagon.
After failing to come to an agreement on the long-awaited ninth batch of aircraft, the government in a rare move unilaterally issued a contract valued at $6.1 billion for 57 jets.
The two parties are still working on a handshake agreement for Lot 10, which they had hoped to reach this fall.
Meanwhile, although many of the international partners will move forward with a three-year bulk purchase of the aircraft starting in 2018, the U.S. military will not.
Designing the world’s most advanced fighter does not come cheap.
The JPO is racing to finish the F-35’s development phase - already at $14 billion since the 2011 program restructuring - but the Pentagon is preparing for a delay of up to seven months past the planned completion date and projecting additional cost growth of $530 million.
And the $14 billion is only a fraction of the full bill: a July 2016 report from the Congressional Research Service pegged the research and development cost at $59.2 billion in fiscal 2012 dollars since the program’s inception.
Here we look at the F-35’s remaining challenges.

Stalled Contract Negotiations.

After 14 months of negotiating low-rate initial-production (LRIP) Lots 9 and 10, the government unilaterally issued Lockheed a contract for the ninth batch of F-35s.
This exceptional move is rarely seen in Pentagon contracting actions but may set a new precedent.
The government could move forward with a similar unilateral action on the anticipated Lot 10 contract, JPO Chief Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan noted at a media briefing on Dec. 19.
“Do I want that to happen? Absolutely not,” Bogdan said.
“We want to negotiate in good faith and come to a bilateral agreement with Lockheed, and we are going to try and do so.”
The JPO and Lockheed are set to begin negotiations again on Lot 10 this month.
The good news is the Lot 9 contract represents an overall drop in the average unit price, Bogdan said.
Including the engine and Lockheed’s fee, an Air Force F-35A costs $102.1 million, a 5.5% drop from Lot 8; a U.S. Marine Corps F-35B is down to $131.6 million, a 1.8% reduction; while a U.S. Navy F-35 is up to $132.2 million, a 2.5% increase, due to a decrease in Navy procurement quantities (see graph).

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No Block Buy for U.S. Services.

Per expectations, most international F-35 partners will move forward with a three-year bulk purchase of aircraft in Lots 12, 13 and 14 beginning in 2018, Bogdan said.
As recently as September, he expressed confidence that the U.S. services would join in the block buy in its second year.
However, Bogdan said Dec. 19 that the JPO made a “strategic communication mistake” in characterizing the services’ plan as a block buy, explaining that the U.S. will instead contribute money to buy long-lead parts in bulk during the three years.
The services have already budgeted for the additional funding, called an “economic order quantity,” in their fiscal 2018 budget blueprints but must ask Congress to authorize the transactions each year.
The block buy will cover 451 aircraft and save about $2 billion altogether, Bogdan said.

ALIS Delays.

Lockheed had hoped to deliver the latest version of the F-35’s critical logistics system, the Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS), by late November.
But it missed that deadline and is now aiming for February or March due to ongoing challenges with integrating the Pratt & Whitney F135 engine into the system, Bogdan said.
An internal diagnostic system that tracks each part of each aircraft worldwide, ALIS is crucial to efficiently maintaining and managing the fleet.
The most updated version, ALIS 2.0.2, is planned to automatically include maintenance data from each aircraft’s engine.
This will ease a burden on maintainers, who currently need to have that data transferred manually from Pratt specialists, who first pull that information off the aircraft.
However, this capability will not be delivered to the warfighter for a few more months because of software difficulties in migrating Lockheed and Pratt data at the supply chain level, Bogdan explained.
The F-35 can still fly without the latest version of ALIS - even into combat. ALIS is a ground-based system that provides sustainment and support but not combat capabilities.
Using an older version of the logistics system just means that maintainers have to take that extra step to track maintenance and manage daily squadron operations when it comes to engine data, Lockheed says.
It also means a squadron would likely need to bring Pratt’s current maintenance infrastructure in addition to the ALIS system on any deployment.

Ongoing Software Challenges.

The JPO and Lockheed spent months in 2016 resolving a bug with the F-35’s interim software load, Block 3i, that caused the aircraft’s system to seize mid-flight and have to be rebooted.
Now the test team is seeing the same problem with the final warfighting software, Block 3F, which will enable the full-up aircraft to deploy critical weapons.
Although operational aircraft outfitted with the fixed 3i software are seeing shutdown events only every 15-20 hr., test aircraft are experiencing the problem after less than 10 hr., Bogdan said.
These glitches do not cause the aircraft to fall out of the sky, Bogdan stressed, as most of the systems on the F-35 are “triple redundant.”
Instead, the pilot must recycle the individual systems until they begin working again.
This kind of problem happens “all the time” with any software-intensive aircraft, Bogdan emphasized.
“F-16s, F-22s, F-18s, at some point in time when flying have computer glitches and malfunctions that require resettings, it’s just a matter of how often that happens,” Bogdan said.
He says he is not worried about the problems with the 3F software, because the program office and industry successfully fixed similar issues with 2B and 3i.

Weapons Integration Challenges.

Weapons integration, including external weapons such as the short-range air-to-air AIM-9X Sidewinder missile, is central to the final Block 3F software load.
But integrating the AIM-9X has been challenging; recent testing revealed “load exceedances,” or excess stress, on the F-35C variant’s wing structure during landings or certain maneuvers.
This is a serious issue, Bogdan acknowledged, but it is being resolved.
The JPO has engineered and ground-tested a fix, which involves beefing up the structure on the inside portion of the wing, and will flight test the solution in January.
Retrofitting the fix onto the aircraft is “simple,” Bogdan said, because the outer wing of the C variant comes off “like a piece of Lego.”
This makes it relatively easy for maintainers to remove the faulty portion of the wing and install a new part.

Putting Out Fires.

The danger with beginning to buy and use an aircraft still being developed - so-called concurrency - is that unexpected problems can crop up during operations.
The JPO is still dealing with fallout from two operational aircraft fires in 2016, as well as an isolated quality escape issue with the JSF’s avionics cooling lines that grounded 15 F-35As in the fall.
The most recent mishap occurred Oct. 27 when a fire broke out on a Marine Corps F-35B during a training flight at Marine Corps AS Beaufort in South Carolina.
The root cause was a loose bracket designed to hold the electrical wires in the bay.
As a result of that loose bracket, the electrical wires began to chafe and set off the spark that caused the fire.
The incident was reportedly a Class A mishap, which involves damage of more than $2 million.
The JPO is retrofitting the fleet with a new, redesigned bracket, Bogdan said.
Because not all B-model aircraft have been modified with the fix, pilots are flying with increased levels of risk, he acknowledged.
Just a month earlier, an F-35A also caught fire as it was preparing for a training mission at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho.
The fire was quickly extinguished and no serious injuries occurred.
The service is still investigating the root cause of the incident, but initial assessments point to a tailpipe fire due to strong tailwinds as the engine was starting.
Meanwhile, all 15 F-35As that were grounded last September due to loose insulation discovered in the wing fuel tanks are flying again.
Lockheed is still fixing the 42 in-production aircraft that were affected by the problem though, which has slowed down the production line.
The company had planned to deliver 53 aircraft this year but will deliver just 45 as a result of this delay.

At-Sea Testing Discoveries.

Finally, the program also is making adjustments due to discoveries during several recent periods of at-sea testing of the F-35B and F-35C variants, Bogdan said.
Marine Corps and Navy operators still are experiencing problems with the helmet’s display system during night flights in which the symbols on the screen are too bright and can blind the pilot.
The JPO does not yet have a permanent fix and may need to make some “operational changes” in the short term while pilots wait for a long-term solution.
“When you are driving your car at night and you are on a really dark road, you know that little button over here that can change your dashboard’s light? Sometimes you can turn that thing up too much so that your dashboard is glowing, and when you are looking at the dashboard and you look up the light is blinding you,” Bogdan explained.
“We have a similar issue with the helmet. You want to turn down that helmet symbology so that it’s not so bright so you can see through it to see the lights, but if you turn it down too much then you start not being able to see the stuff you do want to see.”
The JPO also is working through a problem with the Navy F-35C variant in which the aircraft’s nose appears to bounce up and down as it catapults off the aircraft carrier.
This is primarily because the mechanism in the nose gear is not “damping out” the oscillations from the cable release quickly enough, Bogdan explained.
This problem only occurs with aircraft at very light takeoff weights, he stressed.
“That’s why we do testing, that’s why we have a development program, that’s why we’re going to keep going until we get it right,” Bogdan reiterated.
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Dopo le recentissime, ulteriori critiche espresse da Michael Gilmore .....

http://www.airforcemag.com/Features/Pag ... -IOTE.aspx .....

http://www.dote.osd.mil/pub/reports/FY2 ... Report.pdf .....

..... anche Ray Mabus, Segretario uscente per la Marina, prende a sberle il programma JSF .....
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus sharply criticized joint military acquisition programs Wednesday saying they are more expensive, slower, and lacking in accountability.
In remarks made to defense reporters in Washington, D.C., Mabus focused his ire on the F-35 program, which he said is “way late and way over budget.”
The top civilian Navy official said the F-35 is “called a joint program and it’s not,” because only 40 percent of its parts are common across the Air Force, Navy, and Marine variants of the fifth-generation fighter jet.
But because it is structured as a joint program, he said, “there’s nobody held accountable” because no single service chief is responsible for budget and timeline.
Però .....
Despite President-elect Donald Trump’s suggestion that Boeing develop an alternate version of the F-18 Super Hornet to compete with the F-35, Mabus admitted the services have little choice but to move forward with the program, however flawed it may be.
The Marines, he said, “have to have the F-35” because it “brings capabilities that the F-18 does not.”
Fonte: AFA ..... "Navy Secretary Slams F-35, Praises Military Inclusion" .....
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And we’re going to do that with a lot of other industries.
I’m very much involved with the generals and admirals on the airplane, the F-35, you’ve been reading about it.
And it’s way, way behind schedule and many, many billions of dollars over budget.
I don’t like that.
And the admirals have been fantastic, the generals have been fantastic.
I’ve really gotten to know them well.
And we’re going to do some big things on the F-35 program, and perhaps the F-18 program.
And we’re going to get those costs way down and we’re going to get the plane to be even better.
And we’re going to have some competition and it’s going to be a beautiful thing.
Fonte: time.com ..... "Read a Transcript of Donald Trump’s Press Conference on Conflicts of Interest" .....
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E siamo a 200 .....
Lockheed Martin has delivered the 200th example of its F-35, an aircraft manufactured for export buyer Japan.
Conventional take-off and landing aircraft AX-2 is the second of an eventual 42 F-35As to be produced for the Japan Air Self-Defence Force.
The first four of these are to be built at Lockheed’s Fort Worth site in Texas, with the remainder to roll off a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries-run final assembly and check-out line in Nagoya.
Fonte: FlightGlobal ..... "Lockheed delivers 200th F-35" .....

Intanto ..... dopo la conferenza stampa del neo-eletto ..... le azioni di LM hanno subìto un' altra batosta .....
Lockheed’s stocks plummeted after Trump’s comment, falling from almost $256 to a low of $251.71 this afternoon.
The president-elect’s remarks on the programme echoes an earlier tweet, Trump’s preferred mode of a press announcement, delivered 21 December.
Fonte: FlightGlobal ..... "Trump teases possible F-35 competition" .....

..... mentre stanno emergendo posizioni alquanto divergenti dalla linea di Trump da parte del designato SecDef James Mattis .....
Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense supports Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter programme, the NATO alliance and restrained use of nuclear weapons during his confirmation hearing, marking a stark departure from the president-elect.
Retired US Marine Corps General James Mattis’ stance on those issues would have been unremarkable with any other incoming administration.
Yet in light of Trump’s Twitter attacks on the defense aviation industry and his coziness with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Mattis’ boilerplate comments took on a fresh relevance.
Fonte: FlightGlobal ..... "Mattis strikes sharp contrast to Trump on F-35, nuclear weapons" .....
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Marillyn Hewson .....

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..... (amministratore delegato di LM) ha incontrato il presidente-eletto Trump per la seconda volta nel giro di poche settimane e .....
“I’m glad I had the opportunity to tell him that we are close to a deal that will bring the cost down significantly from the previous lot of aircraft to the next lot of aircraft,” she told reporters after leaving the meeting at Trump Tower in New York.
“I also gave him some ideas on some things we think we can do to drive down the cost on the F-35 program.”
Fonte: DefenseNews ..... "Lockheed Closing in on F-35 Deal, CEO Tells Trump" .....

Dunque LM si sta impegnando a tentare di contenere i costi del faraonico programma .....
C' è da vedere se riuscirà a mantenere tale promessa e, soprattutto, se il neo presidente sarà disposto a crederci .....
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I primi F-35B del Corpo dei Marines sono arrivati in Giappone .....

..... https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... an-433306/ .....

..... http://www.defensenews.com/articles/fir ... e-in-japan .....

..... http://www.iiimef.marines.mil/News/News ... -in-japan/ .....
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Aumenta la pressione su LM affinché contenga i costi ..... lo scrive Chris Pocock su AINonline .....

..... "New Pressure on Lockheed Martin To Reduce F-35 Unit Cost" .....
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Una versione avanzata del Super Hornet potrebbe, sia pure entro determinati limiti, entrare in seria competizione con lo F-35 .....
Boeing’s F/A-18E/F Super Hornet could steal orders away from the Lockheed Martin F-35 if the Trump Administration adjusts defence priorities, military acquisition analyst Andrew Hunter told an audience 23 January at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
An "advanced Super Hornet" still can’t compete with the stealthy F-35 in airspace monitored by radar surveillance, but a semi-low-observable F/A-18E/F with more carriage capacity could emerge as an attractive option against less sophisticated threats, according to Hunter.
Fonte: FlightGlobal ..... "Super Hornet could compete with Lockheed F-35" .....
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