F-35 Joint Strike Fighter

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F-35 Excels At Destroying Targets—If They Don’t Move (excerpt)
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Citat:The Joint Strike Fighter cannot strike moving ground targets using the target system and weapons loadout delivered in Block 3F, the final combat Lightning II configuration of the 17-year system development and demonstration phase.
Citat:The challenge is the F-35 is currently unable to lead a target with its laser designator to compensate for movement.
Ne može da puca zemaljske ciljeve.
A ova još bolja
Citat:The head of the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) says the outer wings of 32 carrier-based C-models need to be replaced to carry the Raytheon AIM-9X Sidewinder, the aircraft’s primary dogfighting weapon.
The U.S. Navy variant experienced an undisclosed amount of oscillation or turbulence during flight trials with the AIM-9X in December 2015, and Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan says aircraft already delivered need to be retrofitted with strengthened wings.
Nosilci ne mogu da nose AIM-9X.

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US to deploy Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter jets to Europe
Citat:The U.S. Air Force is preparing to deploy Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter jets to Europe.

The head of US Air Combat Command said Friday the U.S. Air Force’s F-35 joint strike fighter will soon fly over Europe.
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Dva F-35 stigla u Australiju
Multi-billion-dollar F-35 lands in Australia for first time
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Israel Inaugurates First F-35 Maintenance Training Center
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Citat:F-35As A35-001 and A35-002. First two F-35s to touch down in Australia.
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Razgovaraju sa Spanijom, Svajcarskom i Belgijom.

Citat:"We are talking to several other countries - Switzerland, Belgium, Spain," Jeff Babione, Lockheed Martin's F-35 program leader, told reporters at the Avalon Airshow in Australia.

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F-35A Could Cost $80 Million With Multi-Year Orders, Lockheed Says

Citat:The price in 2019-20 should be $80 million, Bogdan said at the Australian International Airshow at Avalon, Geelong, this week. The most recently negotiated figure, for production lot 10, is $94.6 million.

The $80 million target is reasonable, says Jeff Babione, head of the program for Lockheed Martin, also speaking at the Australian show. But cooperation from customers is needed, he adds: the price can come down if customers contract for several years of production at a time, rather than the usually yearly lots.

Babione suggests that customers should negotiate a contract for three years of production, then one for five years.

These prices include the aircraft’s Pratt & Whitney F135 engine and compare with the $60-65 million unit price of the F-16, a much smaller fighter, of 9.21 metric tons (20,300 lb.) empty weight. The F-35A’s empty weight is around 13.2 metric tons.

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Australian Auditor Says F-35 Work Promises “Not Realized”
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Citat:ANAO’s Feb. 28 report also revealed that, as of June 2016, the acquisition cost of the 72 F-35As planned by Australia has increased by over 30%, to A$16.7 billion, because of the US dollar’s appreciation over the Australian dollar.

Australia will thus end up paying A$232.5 million for each of its F-35s, a figure that is far in excess of the latest US$85 million unit cost now claimed by the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO).
Zbog pada AU dolara, sada plaćaju F-35 A$232.5 milliona.
Citat:The ANAO found that, on the contrary, “Expected economic benefits (return on investment, market share/regional footprint) of Australian Industry participation in the global JSF Program are not realised.”
LM nije dao toliko posla Australcima koliko je obećao. Nategnuli jih kao Italijane.
Kako vidim je obavezno svake sedmice bar jednom vest da avion košta 80 milijona USD dolara.

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A zbog loseg vremena u Australiji,bili su prizemljeni
F-35 Grounded by Lightning in Australia As Promised Fix Not Implemented
Citat:The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) on Saturday grounded two Lockheed F-35A Lightning II fighters attending the Avalon air show because of thunderstorms, preventing them from flying on the shows’ last day and delaying their return flight to the United States for 24 hours.

“It is well documented that the F-35A aircraft requires modifications for lightning protection and these modifications have not yet been completed on the two visiting Australian aircraft,” the RAAF said in a March 4 statement posted on its website.

The grounding is as significant as it is unexpected because it shows the F-35 remains vulnerable to lightning two years after the program executive told Congress the issue was fixed.
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