Well it's been awhile since I last visited "DID" so I'm catching up slowly. Here are the highlights from the ref below as sourced from the GAO. This can't be good for us either but here's the effect for the following countries due to continued software issues for the F-35. I believe this has game implications as well though I haven't checked yet. In the ref you can click on the highlighted blue "GAO Report" which I suspect might show the impact on the other customers as well. I haven't read it yet either. Excerpts...
1. "The RAAF has already ordered 2 F-35As, which are scheduled to begin arriving in 2018, but a recent
GAO report external link indicates that they aren’t likely to be fully combat-ready by then due to software delays. Another 12 F-35As were approved to buy in 2009, but haven’t been placed under contract yet.
These 14 aircraft are more likely to be ready by 2021, which is when RAAF No.3 Squadron is supposed to be operational."
2. "They won’t be alone in the region. By
2023, Japan and South Korea are likely to have their own operational F-35A Squadrons. Singapore may have joined them with F-35Bs, depending on when their order is placed."
This still can slip due to contract issues as noted in this article as well.
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/...29/#more-23629
Couldn't wait as I suspected not good for us either if not cleared for full rate production until 2019 ours won't get operational until maybe 2020. But here you go and off to bed for me before someone has a serious talk with me!
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-14-322
Regards,
Pat
Re: Jets & Planes but no UAV's here.
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