F-35C - Ross Dinsdale
Henry Adams
. February 25, 2021
. Update: February 25, 2021 5:53 am
Reed, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told Bloomberg earlier this week, “We’ve been designing it and it’s still in operational testing and evaluation, and once that’s done, and we hope it’s finished promptly, then we can make a far more detailed assessment of the framework.”We hope that the response to the efficacy of the F-35 and the reason for its billing as the world’s premier fighter aircraft will be delivered soon,” Reed said.”
According to officials and different government reports, maintenance has been hampered by logistics and parts supply issues.The program involves three versions of the aircraft, and, according to a study released this week, a long-promised, fully operational Joint Simulation Environment Facility to evaluate different aspects of the aircraft’s architecture and equipment in simulated combat conditions has not been provided to the U.S. Navy.
Since program officials were slow to contract and build the required equipment, only recently did the Pentagon begin tests, still incomplete, to find out whether theF-35 could launch bombs and missiles if its GPS signals were interrupted by an adversary.We hope that the response to the efficacy of the F-35 and the reason for its billing as the world’s premier fighter aircraft will be delivered soon,” Reed said.”
According to officials and different government reports, maintenance has been hampered by logistics and parts supply issues.Eager to see a combination of state-of-the-art and less costly fighter planes in the U.S. military fleet, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Brown Jr. compared the F-35 to a Ferrari last week.Brown said, “You don’t drive your Ferrari to work every day, you drive it only on Sundays.” “This is our ‘high end’ [the F-35].
We want to make sure that we don’t need any of this for low-end fighting. I want to moderate the degree to which we use these aircraft.”The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute and the Georgia Tech Research Institute are scheduled to provide an independent technical evaluation of the elements required to start combat testing in an effective simulator by Feb. 28.
Reed noted that Congress usually considers the initial price tag of a military operation, without contemplating the long-term viability of the program. “I think the F-35 would push us to be much more mindful of sustainability,” Reed said, “on how to lower those costs, on how to look at those structures in terms of their life cycles, not just how much it costs to build them.”
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