F-35 Program Docs

Here is an extensive PDF that just came out on June 7th that goes over the F-35's AGCAS testing.

Two entries initially caught my attention, (all the dots made me dizzy):

"Some Testing is Best Left to the Simulator"

The "Tower Flyby" Scenario....Is that to visually check gear position....or C model only to get the controller to spill his coffee?

12 Jun 2019 LM F-35 Fast Facts: https://a855196877272cb14560-2a4fa819a6 ... 2019_2.pdf

10 Jul 2019 F-35 LM Fast Facts: https://a855196877272cb14560-2a4fa819a6 ... y_2019.pdf

https://media.defense.gov/2019/Aug/01/2 ... R-2018.PDF (0.9Mb)
Department of Defense - Comprehensive Selected Acquisition Reports for the Annual 2018 Reporting Requirement as Updated by the President’s Fiscal Year 2020 Budget [edited 3 pages to ONLY the F-35 attached below]

LM F-35 Fast Facts PDF 06 Aug 2019: https://a855196877272cb14560-2a4fa819a6 ... 2019_2.pdf

SepFacts are here today: but attached below for the continuing record (because they disappear after awhile otherwise).

by 'weasel1962' viewtopic.php?f=58&t=13143&p=426601&hilit=commercial#p426601

LM F-35 Fast Facts 03 Oct 2019 attached below: https://a855196877272cb14560-2a4fa819a6 ... 0_2019.pdf (1.6Mb)

'juretrn' posted a graphic of this LRIP 12-14 PDF here [ viewtopic.php?f=58&t=56256&p=429290&hilit=mark#p429290 ] earlier but PDF attached below now.

https://a855196877272cb14560-2a4fa819a6 ... t_2019.pdf

LM F-35 Fast Facts dated 07 Nov 2019 attached: https://a855196877272cb14560-2a4fa819a6 ... 2019_2.pdf

LM F-35 Fast Facts 12 Dec 2019 - only 240,000+ hours: https://a855196877272cb14560-2a4fa819a6 ... r_2019.pdf

So next year F-35s will outnumber EF Typhoon also which is the most produced Eurocanard. Year after that it will outnumber Super Hornet... Pretty incredible production rate.

So next year F-35s will outnumber EF Typhoon also which is the most produced Eurocanard. Year after that it will outnumber Super Hornet... Pretty incredible production rate.

[sarc on} Yeah That death spiral thingie is a bitch ain't it?

MHO,
BP

LM F-35 Fast Facts 12 Dec 2019 - only 240,000+ hours: https://a855196877272cb14560-2a4fa819a6 ... r_2019.pdf

They list Turkey as purchasing 100 F-35A's as part of the Program of Record, albeit with the footnote that the US DoD announced plans on July 17, 2019 to remove Turkey.

But... NO mention of Polish purchase?

And was it Denmark or the Netherlands that announced plans to purchase additional Lightnings?

Also, hasn't Singapore announced plans (and been approved) to purchase a handful of aircraft? Four or six?

Lastly, why 88 for Canaduh? Had Canaduh originally announced plans to purchase 88? (I thought it was 60 or 66?)

LM posts Government to LM buy letters / somesuch official documentation via US gubmint? Anyway they are slack for sure.