Obustavlja se proizvodnja F-35?

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Pentagon u problemu, ostaju bez lovca budućnosti?
Novosti online 02. 01. 2021.

PENTAGON je odlučio da obustavi masovnu proizvodnju lovaca F-35, piše Blumberg a prenosi RIA Novosti.

Razlog ove odluke su neuspeli testovi savremenog lovca koji su trebali da se održe još u decembru. Istovremeno, saglasnost za ponovno pokretanje proizvodnje, vredne 398 milijardi dolara, mora se dati najkasnije do marta 2021. godine. Testovi simulirane borbe su odlagani od 2017. godine. Ovog puta, prema rečima portparolke Pentagona Džesike Maksvel testovi su odloženi zbog tehničkih problema i pandemije korona virusa. Da bi se odredio novi datum testa, biće potrebno još jedno ispitivanje. Prema analitičarima Blumberga, timu novoizabranog predsednika Džpa Bajdena biće potrebni meseci da dobiju sve informacije potrebne za konačnu odluku o F-35.

Više od 600 od planiranih 3,2 hiljade letelica F-35 već se koristi u američkom vazduhoplovstvu. Ipak, još uvek je nepoznato kako će se lovac pokazati protiv ruskih i kineskih sistema PVO i najnovijih aviona.

Izvor: www.novosti.rs

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Ne obustavlja se proizvodnja već se ne prelazi na masovnu proizvodnju.  

Čeka se rezultat završnih testiranja koja su usporena.

poz.

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Sve je jasno, nego mora bombastičan naslov, drama, senzacija...

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Evo je i vest u originalu. Napraviće 18-24 letelice manje od planiranih 141 za 2020. godinu.

COVID-19 pandemic keeps Lockheed from meeting F-35 delivery goal in 2020
By: Valerie Insinna December 31, 2020

WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin delivered 123 F-35s to the U.S. military and international customers in 2020, missing its initial 141-aircraft goal for the year but meeting its revised target, the company announced Monday.

The COVID-19 pandemic proved itself to be a formidable challenge to Lockheed’s main F-35 production line in Fort Worth, Texas, as well as its network of suppliers across the globe. As early as April, Lockheed executives sounded the alarm about potential supply chain disruptions that threatened to slow down F-35 production.

In May, the company announced it would be 18 to 24 jets short of the 141 F-35s scheduled for delivery in 2020. By fall it had set a new delivery target of 121 aircraft.

“The F-35 joint enterprise team rapidly responded to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic to continue to deliver the unmatched combat capability the F-35 brings to the warfighter,” said Bill Brotherton, the company’s acting vice president for the F-35 program. “Achieving this milestone amid a global pandemic is a testament to the hard work and dedication of the team and their commitment to our customers’ missions.”

The 123rd aircraft — an F-35A conventional takeoff and landing variant — was built at the final assembly and checkout facility in Cameri, Italy and delivered to the Italian air force last week.

Over the past year, Lockheed delivered 74 F-35s to the U.S. military, 31 jets to international partner nations that helped pay into the program’s development costs, and 18 aircraft to foreign military sales customers.

However, the company needed to take steps to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on its production lines and suppliers, such as accelerating payments to small businesses that build components for the aircraft and grappling with COVID-19 breakouts that have sometimes led to the quarantine of a portion of its supply chain.

In May, the F-35 production line in Fort Worth moved to a three-month adjusted work schedule, slowing the pace of production because its suppliers weren’t getting components to the line on time. During that stretch, production decreased to about eight to 10 jets per month, Darren Sekiguchi, Lockheed’s vice president of F-35 production, said in an October interview.

Instead of surging to meet the 141-jet target — which would have increased production costs and created the risk of future delivery delays — Sekiguchi said that Lockheed would more incrementally ramp production back up to 14 jets per month. It will take until 2023 for the company to catch up to its original production schedule.

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Odlaze se odluka o pokretanju velikoseriske proizvodnje, to moze da utice na obim proizvodnje i kasnjenja planiranog obima proizvodnje ali sam pricno siguran da nece doci do obustave proizvodnje F-35.
Amerikanci nemaju kuda nego da nastave sa prozivodnjom - mozda sporije i uz dodatne dorade.
Ovo je vec poznat problem koji se vec vuce par godina u vezi sa simulacijom.


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Lockheed F-35 Full-Production Decision, Key Test Delayed

By Anthony Capaccio
October 26, 2020, 4:52 PM GMT+1 Updated on October 27, 2020, 3:17 PM GMT+1

 Simulation testing scheduled for December isn’t ready to begin
 Report on full-rate production had been expected next March

Pentagon officials have delayed approving full-rate production of Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 jet because combat simulation testing that’s needed before that key decision on the $398 billion program has slipped into next year.

The testing that was originally scheduled for 2017 and most recently for December has been postponed again because of difficulties finishing technical preparations. Now, both the testing and the production decision “are scheduled in 2021,” Jessica Maxwell,
spokeswoman for Defense Department acquisition chief Ellen Lord, said in a statement.

If the combat testing had begun in December, it would have taken an additional two to three months after its completion to transfer and analyze the data and then draft the final report for delivery to Pentagon leaders and Congress. That would put it in March of next year.

Now both events have slipped, Maxwell said. The F-35 program office “currently estimates” that the new test delay “will not support a March 2021 date.” It is “preparing an updated project schedule based on measured progress to date,” she said.

The delay means that if Democrat Joe Biden wins the White House, the F-35 milestone may be his defense secretary’s first major acquisition decision.

A full-rate production decision would be a seal of approval from the Defense Department to U.S. taxpayers and foreign customers that the fighter jet has been fully tested, deemed effective against the highest-level threats, can meet its maintenance goals and can be produced efficiently.

F-35 production will continue under its current low-rate production phase “in accordance with congressional authorization and appropriation,” Maxwell said. As of Oct. 1, more than 570 of the planes have been delivered to the U.S. and allied militaries in what’s planned to be a program of more than 3,200 jets.

The one-month “Joint Simulation Environment” combat test will use a full replica of the F-35 cockpit rigged with its combat sensors and electronics. A pilot at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland will operate in a fully functioning simulator with a 360-degree view that depicts classified air and ground threats and incorporates allied aircraft as well.

The simulation exercise was supposed to be ready three years ago but “the program has struggled to develop the complex software and functionality needed to complete” it, the Government Accountability Office said in its annual program report in April.