Pentagon Puts F-35 Full-Rate Production Decision on Hold
1–10 of 267 posts
Re: Pentagon Puts F-35 Full-Rate Production Decision on Hold
#2Good. The whole thing should be shut down.
Re: Pentagon Puts F-35 Full-Rate Production Decision on Hold
#3What does "full-rate production" mean?
I searched and find a few military/defense related articles, but none of them really explain it in average Joe's terms.
Re: Pentagon Puts F-35 Full-Rate Production Decision on Hold
#4Yet for some weird reason this plane is still one of the 4 plains in the running to replace the old FA-18 in the Swiss air force.
Re: Pentagon Puts F-35 Full-Rate Production Decision on Hold
#5What does "full-rate production" mean? I searched and find a few military/defense related articles, but none of them really explain it in average Joe's terms.
600 have already been delivered. Covid caused a disruption in final certification, that's it. The F35 isn't being cancelled, although I predict most comments here will devolve into a debate of the plane's merits. The US and many allies are committed, the US will eventually own thousands.
Re: Pentagon Puts F-35 Full-Rate Production Decision on Hold
#6What does "full-rate production" mean? I searched and find a few military/defense related articles, but none of them really explain it in average Joe's terms.
Basically, "will we make the several thousand we originally planned to make?"
For example, the B-2 was planned with over a hundred aircraft, but we wound up making only about 20.
Re: Pentagon Puts F-35 Full-Rate Production Decision on Hold
#7It's really baffling that the US isn't looking more heavily at cheaper, easier to field aircraft like the A-29 Super Tucano for counter-insurgency operations like Iraq and Afghanistan.
Re: Pentagon Puts F-35 Full-Rate Production Decision on Hold
#8After seeing what happened in Armenia & Azerbaijan, I'm wondering if the US's customers are pushing for these cheaper drone options instead of the F35. The F35 has been in development so long, that it's seeing its own combat role supplanted
Re: Pentagon Puts F-35 Full-Rate Production Decision on Hold
#9The Drive back again with another one of its anti-F35 articles. It would seem that this administration is just punting to the next one, which is probably a good idea.
I would take anything they post about the plane with a grain of salt. They take any setback as if it's the first time a large technical project has ever experienced issues.
Re: Pentagon Puts F-35 Full-Rate Production Decision on Hold
#10What does "full-rate production" mean? I searched and find a few military/defense related articles, but none of them really explain it in average Joe's terms.
600 have already been delivered. Covid caused a disruption in final certification, that's it. The F35 isn't being cancelled, although I predict most comments here will devolve into a debate of the plane's merits. The US and many allies are committed, the US will eventually own thousands.
If you didn't know, you've been hell-banned (silently hidden from the HN that almost everyone else sees) for two years. That's why you get so few replies to your comments.