F-35 Jet Fails to Meet Basic Operating Standards in 65 Areas – Pentagon Report
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter still suffers at least 65 basic deficiencies where it continues to fail to meet basic testing specifications, the Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) said in a report.
The JPO [F-35 Joint Project Office] completed the readiness review for JSE [joint simulation environment] trials in September 2023, and certified it as ready for testing, despite 65 deficiencies against the baseline JSE requirements, the report said on Friday.
The F-35 program development cycle continues to experience delays due to immature and deficient Block 4 mission systems software and avionics stability problems with the new Technology Refresh 3 (TR-3) hardware going into Lot 15 production aircraft, the report said.
“As a result, deliveries of production Lot 15 aircraft in the TR-3 configuration are on hold until more testing can be completed and the avionics issues resolved. …[T]hese delays prevented the F-35 JPO from adequately planning and programming for hardware modifications … of the upgraded hardware configuration,” the report said.
Also, the necessary flight test instrumentation, including both aircraft and open-air battle shaping instrumentation, for both, the remaining TR-2 configuration and upgraded TR-3 aircraft, are not all on contract and will not be available in time, the report added.
Biden Promises More US Airstrikes
President Joe Biden has defended the US response to a recent drone strike that left three American soldiers dead, claiming that the air raids have targeted militia groups in Iraq and Syria allegedly backed by Iran.
In a statement issued on Friday, Biden said he personally ordered the Pentagon’s response to last weekend’s deadly drone strike on a Jordanian military base housing US troops.
“This afternoon, at my direction, US military forces struck targets at facilities in Iraq and Syria that the IRGC and affiliated militia use to attack US forces,” the president said, referring to Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, an elite military unit.
“Our response began today,” Biden stated, adding that retaliatory strikes would continue “at times and places of our choosing.”
US defense chief Lloyd Austin also warned that the latest round of strikes is just “the start of our response,” adding that “the president has directed additional actions.”
US Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, previously announced that it had carried out air raids on more than 85 targets across both Iraq and Syria, also citing last Sunday’s drone strike in Jordan.
The operation involved “numerous aircraft,” including long-range bombers flown from the US, which dropped over 125 precision munitions on their targets, the command added. Those targets were said to include command and control centers, intelligence sites, weapons caches, and supply-chain facilities of Iranian-backed militias.
US Judge Dismisses Disney Lawsuit Against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
A federal court has thrown out Disney’s lawsuit against Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The lawsuit had claimed that the DeSantis administration had violated the company’s First Amendment rights by removing Disney World’s special district […]
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Judge Aquits Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Over Oil Protest
A judge has acquitted climate activist Greta Thunberg of a charge that she refused to follow a police order to leave a protest blocking the entrance to a major oil and gas industry conference in […]
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Slams US Airstrikes On Syria & Iraq
The US should withdraw its ground troops from Middle Eastern countries that do not welcome them, according to US president candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. On Friday Washington launched a new bombing campaign against Iranian-backed […]
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70% of Embalmers Report Finding ‘Strange Fibrous Blood Clots’ In Vaccinated Corpses
More than 70 percent of embalmers in four countries including the US have reported finding strange, fibrous blood clots in the corpses of people who received Covid mRNA vaccinations, according to a bombshell new study. […]
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