F-35 Joint Strike Fighter

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Napisano: 04 Avg 2011 19:27

JSF Plane Project in More Flak

Citat:Officials in Britain's Defence Ministry are pushing to scrap their country's plans to buy a variant of the Joint Strike Fighter, reports from Britain say, potentially raising the cost for other customers such as Australia.

Media reports claim officials want the Royal Navy to buy older, less-capable F-18 jets, rather than pay higher prices for 138 JSF aircraft designed to be flown from aircraft carriers.


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Dopuna: 04 Avg 2011 22:17

F-35A AF-1,AF-2,AF-3,AF-4,AF-6 i AF-7 u vazduhoplovnoj bazi Edwards

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All F-35 and F-22s grounded
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Published: 04 August, 2011, 00:47


An F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, marked AA-1, lands Oct. 23 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. (http://www.af.mil)

TAGS: Arms, Military, History, USA, Government Spending, Economy


Over 200 of the most expensive aircrafts in the world are used by the US Military, but fleets of war planes owned by the Air Force are sitting on the sidelines, despite costing billions of dollars.

All 20 of the F-35 aircrafts in a fleet manufactured by Lockheed Martin were grounded today after the factory’s Joint Program Office (JPO) identified a failure in the plane’s electrical system while conducting tests on the ground.

An official for the JPO tells Flight International that they are investigating the problem, and once the facts are “understood,” Lockheed Martin will then decide what to do with the fleet of planes.

This F-35 fleet has been grounded three times now since October. The one plane that triggered the problem, the AF-4, has been grounded itself twice in 2011 alone.

The fleet of F-35s join 187 F-22’s purchased by the Air Force through Lockheed Martin have been out of operation since they were first acquired in 2005. Those planes, worth a total of $77.4 billion, have remained out of use since they were first added to the Military’s arsenal. In May, however, malfunctions in the oxygen system installed in the crafts caused the Air Force to indefinitely ground the fleet, this time with actual reason.

Aside from training and patrol operations, the nearly $80 billion worth of F-22s have never been used by the US Military, despite the country’s engagement in several wars.

In 2009, then Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that the F-22 was something the Military needed in order to defeat highly advanced enemy fighter fleets, but added, “to be blunt, does not make much sense anyplace else in the spectrum of conflict.”

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Prednji stajni trap neodoljivo podseca na ST aviona F/A-18.

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Lockheed Wins $535M Advance Order for Lot 6 of F-35 Production

Citat:Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $535,315,000 advance acquisition contract to provide long lead parts and components required for the manufacture of 38 Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) Lot VI F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter aircraft (19 Conventional Takeoff and Landing (CTOL) aircraft for the Air Force; 4 CTOLs for the government of Italy; 2 CTOLs for the government of Australia; 6 Short Take-Off Vertical Landing (STOVL) aircraft for the U.S. Marine Corps; and 7 Carrier Variant (CV) aircraft for the Navy).


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F-35 'osvojio'
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Citat:The vast bipartisan conspiracy against F-35 & V-22
In US budget deficit wars, there seems to be only one consensus: it's time to kill or cut back the F-35 and V-22...
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F-35 was allowed to move through the ground
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Napisano: 11 Avg 2011 15:09

..ali i dalje ne lete..


Dopuna: 19 Avg 2011 12:01

JSF ponovo leti...

Pentagon Clears F-35 Test Fleet to Fly Again

Citat:The F-35 Lightning II test fleet has been cleared for flight, but the U.S. Air Force's production aircraft at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., are still grounded, the Pentagon announced Aug. 18.

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Dopuna: 23 Avg 2011 15:24

F-35C Completes Jet Blast Deflector Testing


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Citat:LAKEHURST, N.J. (Aug. 13, 2011) An F-35C test aircraft CF-1, rear, with an F/A-18E Super Hornet prepares for two-aircraft jet blast deflector testing. F-35C carrier suitability testing is ongoing with catapult and arrestment test events through the rest of the year, leading up to initial ship trials in 2013.