PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - F-35 Cancelled, then what ?
View Single Post
Old 29th Jan 2018, 20:03
  #11082 (permalink)  
George K Lee
 
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: South Skerry
Posts: 305
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Well, actually, since the USAF started receiving and flying substantial numbers of airplanes, they have cut their planned full-rate production tempo from 80 to 60 jets a year, and their senior acquisition officer has expressed increasing concern about the need to upgrade the current jets with the next-gen processor and has actually asked Congress to not fund more jets than the AF has requested.

A deep dive into the DOT&E availability, reliability and maintainability numbers will tell you more about this than any 237 updates of LockMart's happy-talk Fact Facts.
George K Lee is offline