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2017-01-17 Government

F-35 has 276 deficiencies and counting, unfit for combat operations – Pentagon report

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Posted by DarthVader 2017-01-17 07:53|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Cancel and buy BOMARCS for the allies.

Posted by Shipman 2017-01-17 09:16|| 2017-01-17 09:16|| Front Page Top

#2 The jet is SEXIST AGAINST WOMEN!!!

Nah, the service height and weight charts are SEXIST!!!!

I don't recall too many people who have problem putting on the tonnage. It usually the opposite that's the challenge.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-01-17 10:08|| 2017-01-17 10:08|| Front Page Top

#3 skip many of the tests and declare the systems development phase over early,

Anyone who has worked in IT knows that tune. When the schedule starts to slip the first thing to go is testing...then documentation.

Then you do a limited roll out with 2 screens and a report and declare it a victory before starting in on phase 1B ... or 1C ... or 1D whichever is appropriate where you will try and fix it.

Of course the new phase requires a new functional specification...............................and Willie goes round in circles.

Posted by AlanC 2017-01-17 11:11|| 2017-01-17 11:11|| Front Page Top

#4 You can't always blame the company. After 8 years of the Obama regime, this may be the fault of the Obama transvestite cronyism or the Muslim influence and "contributions" of that element of his pentagon.

Posted by Nero White 3083 2017-01-17 11:40|| 2017-01-17 11:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Dr. Gilmore, the Pentagon's director of operational test & evaluation (OTE) under President Barack Obama
That's all I needed to see to know this is FAKE NEWS!
Seriously, the implications are that these are major problems. My spidey sense tells me these mostly small, easily fixed problems. This is Obumbles using a crony to cause more hate and discontent.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-01-17 12:44|| 2017-01-17 12:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Anyone who ever bought a coat from Burlington's "one Size Fits All" rack would have know this was a bad idea.

Posted by Whons McCoy6649 2017-01-17 14:00|| 2017-01-17 14:00|| Front Page Top

#7 McNamara tried it with the F-111 and instead of a tri service fighter we wound up with a really fast BOMBER.

Sounds like the F-35 may be the world's most expensive bombing range target.

If I were a pilot in the Military, you'd have to stick a gun to my head to get me to sit in one of these monstrosities.

Maybe we should go dark with the program, claim we fixed it and give them to the Iranians as part of the Nuke "treaty."

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-01-17 14:16|| 2017-01-17 14:16|| Front Page Top

#8 First F-35I 'Adir' Flight in Israel

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-01-17 14:26|| 2017-01-17 14:26|| Front Page Top

#9 You can bet the Israelis told Lockheed Martin to erase the logistics software and just leave the stuff that lets the pilot fly the dammed thing.

I still say it might be a good airframe but all of the technobullshit they piled into the thing to make it a flying automatic parts retrieval system is killing it.

I would bet an audit of the program would show that the vast majority of the developmental cost went to trying to fix that logistics and maintenance wetdream they cooked up to make it easier to maintain.

Easier to maintain? The thing can't fly because of the software.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-01-17 17:48|| 2017-01-17 17:48|| Front Page Top

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