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IBTimes: Lockheed Martin's F-35 Reliability Not Improving, Defense Department Report Says
The efforts made to enhance the reliability of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 planes have gone “stagnant” due to various reasons, which included aircrafts having to wait for long intervals to get spare parts from the contractor, Pentagon’s testing office stated.
The Defense Department's new director of operational testing, Robert Behler, said, in a yearly report presented to senior Pentagon leaders and congressional committees Tuesday, the availability of F-35 jets for a mission remained “around 50 percent, a condition that has existed with no significant improvement since October 2014, despite the increasing number of aircraft,” Bloomberg reported.
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More News On The Pentagon Report That Solving F-35 Problems Are Stagnant
Why the Pentagon Isn't Happy With the F-35 -- Bloomberg
F-35, the World’s Most Expensive Weapons System, Still Has Plenty of Problems -- Fiscal Times
Lockheed Martin’s Progress in Fixing Unsolved F-35 Issues Remains ‘Stagnant’ -- Sputnik
Half of F-35 fleet grounded by tech problems – Pentagon report -- RT
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