So, right off the bat, when talking to our elected officials, the head of USAF F-35 integration, in the first paragraph of the introduction uses unsupportable claims, LM talking points and spin.
Not a lot of weapons clearance. This was watered down significantly since 2002-3. All kinds of things to get the gullible to sign up for the MOU. Even...HARM.
L--O--L.
Fuel-inerting as noted. Of interest here, the F-35B fuel system is different in this reqard to problem and solution. One is hardware fix, the other is a software hardware fix. Probably though software is also, always involved.
No mention that the aircraft is at high risk of getting killed vs. emerging threats.
SEAD? Against what? SA3,SA6, SA8?
ALIS is still high risk.
Support equipment availability. I find this disappointing since they have had years to be good-to-go in this regard.
The maintenance manning issue was totally avoidable. See my previous post on the Canadian 2009 brief and maintenance manning blue-sky fantasy. Also USAF has been letting maintainers go. Important seed-corn and tribal knowledge just let go. Totally avoidable. Also the idea that the A-10 community should help out in this regard is irresponsible.
EOTS won't be good until Block 4. The program is so old that the locked-in design requirement means that new external pods for 'legacy' aircraft are better. Not mentioned, the field of view for EOTS is limited. Good for interdiction missions. Not good for CAS. Legacy aircraft are yet again, a safer option for this mission.
Point 14. Information sharing. I have no sympathy here either. Just like the ejection safety issues, they have had years to get this sorted.
Scare-mongering over the budget. The DOD gets plenty of money. They also waste plenty of money. Example: 900-plus flag ranks and their comfort-castles.
Trying to explain away the F-16D encounter: weak. Note also that no one has been shouting from the rooftop lately on how DAS is just so great and situational awareness is not a problem.
Your camera phone captures a better quality image.
He harps on blue-sky marketing with Block 4. Well. We were told that Block 3 (the end of SDD) would give us a complete, combat-capable jet. Now he and his team are telling us it's shit.
If this jet goes into combat against a real opponent, it will get killed. And that is if there were not technical problems.
Especially because of this raft of poorly thought out assumptions on what the Joint Strike Fighter was supposed to offer.
Galactic stupidity.
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-DOT&E Report: The F-35 Is Not Ready for IOC and Won't Be Any Time Soon
-Time's Battleland - 5 Part series on F-35 procurement - 2013
-Summary of Air Power Australia F-35 points
-Bill Sweetman, Aviation Week and the F-35
-U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) F-35 reports
-F-35 JSF: Cold War Anachronism Without a Mission
-History of F-35 Production Cuts
-Looking at the three Japan contenders (maneuverability)
-How the Canadian DND misleads the public about the F-35
-Value of STOVL F-35B over-hyped
-Cuckoo in the nest--U.S. DOD DOT&E F-35 report is out
-6 Feb 2012 Letter from SASC to DOD boss Panetta questioning the decision to lift probation on the F-35B STOVL.
-USAFs F-35 procurement plan is not believable
-December 2011 Australia/Canada Brief
-F-35 Key Performance Perimeters (KPP) and Feb 2012 CRS report
-F-35 DOD Select Acquisition Report (SAR) FY2012
-Release of F-35 2012 test report card shows continued waste on a dud program
-Australian Defence answers serious F-35 project concerns with "so what?"
-Land of the Lost (production cut history update March 2013)
-Outgoing LM F-35 program boss admits to flawed weight assumptions (March 2013)
-A look at the F-35 program's astro-turfing
-F-35 and F-16 cost per flying hour
-Is this aircraft worth over $51B of USMC tac-air funding?
-Combat radius and altitude, A model
-F-35A, noise abatement and airfields and the USAF
-Deceptive marketing practice: F-35 blocks
-The concurrency fraud
-The dung beetle's "it's known" lie
-F-35's air-to-air ability limited
-F-35 Blocks--2006 and today
-The F-35B design is leaking fuel
-F-35 deliveries
-ADF's wacky F-35 assumptions
-Gauging performance, the 2008 F-35, Davis dream brief
-Aboriginal brought out as a prop
-Super Kendall's F-35 problem
-LM sales force in pre-Internet era
-History of F-35 engine problems
-Compare
-JSF hopes and dreams...early days of the Ponzi Scheme
-The Prognostics
-2002--Australia joins the F-35 program
-Congressional Research Service--Through to FY2013, F-35 has received $83.3B in funding
-F-35 choice gives Dutch a shocking high cost per flight hour
-More indications that the F-35 is a failed program
-From the year 2000. Very insightful. The JSF: One More Card In The House (PDF)
“It will affordable because already there are 3,000 aircraft on the order books.”
—27 June 2002, Air Marshal Houston, Defence press announcement, Australia joins the F-35 program—
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