F35
Lockheed Martin Sees Hill Support For F-35 PBL « Breaking Defense
F-35 on Lockheed Martin production line WASHINGTON: Lockheed Martin is projecting about an 80 percent drop in its portion of the F-35’s costs per flying hour by 2031, company officials said today — arguing that overall costs could be even further reduced should DoD sign a company-proposed multi-year performance-based logistics (PBL) contract. “Our costs per flying …
Lawmakers Blast Lockheed, DoD Over F-35 Parts Problems « Breaking Defense
Lockheed Martin F-35 production line WASHINGTON: In a stormy two-hour hearing, members of the House Oversight Committee lambasted Lockheed Martin and Pentagon officials for putting pilots at risk of accidents by failing to fix the F-35’s troubled maintenance system. “Fix this now, before you have blood on your hands,” said Rep. Rashida Talib. Criticism and …
China’s J-20 Stealth Fighter Is Built on Stolen F-35 Technology
Key Point: Beijing has long stolen foreign technology and used it to reverse-engineer its own weapons. Photos of the J-20 provide an up close and personal look at the fuselage of the new interceptor. But the photos also appear to show a sensor system that looks awfully similar to the Lockheed Martin Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS) …
Trump reportedly offered to sell Turkey F-35 jets for no invasion
President Donald Trump reportedly advised Turkey not to invade northeastern Syria and offered to resume sales of the US’s fifth-generation aircraft, the Lockheed Martin F-35. Trump reportedly offered Erdogan “a really good package,” in addition to other benefits and a presidential visit, a senior official said, according to a Washington Post report published Wednesday. The …
Lockheed WILL Force Down F-35 Flight Costs: Ulmer « Breaking Defense
PARIS AIR SHOW: It’s a mantra: 25 by 25. Lockheed Martin recites it to ward off the criticism that the F-35 is too expensive to operate. What’s it mean? That the costs of operating the F-35 each hour will fall to $25,000 per hour from its current $44,000. The JSF Joint Program Office is targeting $34,000 …
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