F-35 deliveries

F-35 deliveries (existing and projected).




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Shockingly flat and points to so many assumptions about the F-35 program that just have not come true.

Compare to this faith-based 2003 graphic (note: only 6 LRIPs).


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That last one, LRIP-6 is a bit hard to read. That is for 168 aircraft. Full rate production would follow right after that. You are looking at a lot of lost money to the rent-seekers in the supply chain; a lot of lost capability.

Based on dreams with no credible analysis to back them up.

People are not buying because the aircraft is nowhere near complete. It doesn't work to any credible worth. Something to think about almost 13 years after LM won the JSF contract.

Australia gets their first F-35 tomorrow where it will be rolled out from the Fort Worth factory.

It has no combat capability.

It will get killed vs. emerging threats.

It is unaffordable to own and operate.

Other than that, the program is moving right along.

To oblivion.


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-Time's Battleland - 5 Part series on F-35 procurement - 2013 
-Summary of Air Power Australia F-35 points
-Bill Sweetman, Aviation Week and the F-35
-U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) F-35 reports
-F-35 JSF: Cold War Anachronism Without a Mission
-History of F-35 Production Cuts
-Looking at the three Japan contenders (maneuverability)
-How the Canadian DND misleads the public about the F-35
-Value of STOVL F-35B over-hyped
-Cuckoo in the nest--U.S. DOD DOT&E F-35 report is out
-6 Feb 2012 Letter from SASC to DOD boss Panetta questioning the decision to lift probation on the F-35B STOVL.
-USAFs F-35 procurement plan is not believable
-December 2011 Australia/Canada Brief
-F-35 Key Performance Perimeters (KPP) and Feb 2012 CRS report
-F-35 DOD Select Acquisition Report (SAR) FY2012
-Release of F-35 2012 test report card shows continued waste on a dud program
-Australian Defence answers serious F-35 project concerns with "so what?"
-Land of the Lost (production cut history update March 2013)
-Outgoing LM F-35 program boss admits to flawed weight assumptions (March 2013)
-A look at the F-35 program's astro-turfing
-F-35 and F-16 cost per flying hour
-Is this aircraft worth over $51B of USMC tac-air funding?
-Combat radius and altitude, A model
-F-35A, noise abatement and airfields and the USAF
-Deceptive marketing practice: F-35 blocks
-The concurrency fraud
-The dung beetle's "it's known" lie
-F-35's air-to-air ability limited
-F-35 Blocks--2006 and today
-The F-35B design is leaking fuel