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The Pentagon is accelerating production of Lockheed Martin Corp.'s F-35 jet even though the planes already delivered are facing "significantly longer repair times" than planned because maintenance facilities are six years behind schedule, according to a draft audit.
The time to repair a part has averaged 172 days -- "twice the program's objective" -- the Government Accountability Office, Congress's watchdog agency, found. The shortages are "degrading readiness" because the fighter jets "were unable to fly about 22 percent of the time" from January through August for lack of needed parts.
[...] The F-35 program office and Lockheed have identified steps to increase parts availability "to prevent these challenges from worsening" as aircraft numbers increase, the GAO said, but Pentagon documentation indicates "the program's ability to speed up this time line is uncertain."
The GAO also disclosed that the F-35B -- the Marine Corps version of the fighter that's scheduled to begin ship deployments next year -- won't have required maintenance and repair capabilities at sea and "will likely experience degraded readiness."
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday November 05 2017, @09:51PM (2 children)
Believe me, I don't mind the militaristic folks. Dianne Feinstein, as you know, says I'm "a good president." The best. She has "personal feelings" about me. As do many, many people. There's nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong.
And Marillyn did get my attention. Melania was living in New York at the time. I was in Washington but she was still in New York. Very difficult situation. And Marillyn, let me tell you, below the neck she's great. I was locked and loaded. And I made a great deal with Lockheed. #MAGA 🇺🇸
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @10:48PM (1 child)
>140 chars. sad.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 06 2017, @10:17AM
Trump is just practicing for when that goes live :)