J. Michael Glimore, director of operational test and evaluation within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, told a House hearing last week that the F-35 — which is being built in three different versions for the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps — is “at a critical time.”
“There are shortfalls in electronic warfare, electronic attack, shortfalls in the performance of distributed aperture system and other issues that are classified,” Mr. Gilmore said March 23. “With regard to mission assistance, stealth aircraft are not visible to achieve success against the modern stressing mobile threats. We’re relying on our $400 million investment in F-35 to provide mission systems [that] must work in some reasonable sense of that word.”
Mr. Gilmore testified that the F-35 system remains “immature” and “provides limited combat capability,” despite the Marines declaring their F-35s as having initial operating capability and the Air Force planning to do so later this year.
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5 comments:
They better get the suckers right, we may be needing them sooner than anyboby knows.
Wasn't this plane built 12 or so years ago? And it STILL has glitches??????
doesn't matter, Obama wants them grounded because they could hurt some muslim, I mean somebody
It is a good thing that the electoral college votes for all of MD, because some people are just too dumb for their vote to actually be counted.
Been flying for 10 years and still it can't see combat.n What an embarrassment to the Country this is.
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