F-35 Joint Strike Fighter News, Videos and pics Thread

[SlothmanAllen]

Uh oh.

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Well the F35 as a retirement/welfare program for lockheed and its partners is working as intended.

At some point you'd think they would just seize the data rights to the F-35 and be done with it. They seem to have very little ability to force Lockheed to change their ways.

 

[AlexYe]

At some point you'd think they would just seize the data rights to the F-35 and be done with it. They seem to have very little ability to force Lockheed to change their ways.

That would make too much sense, and has too much socialism/communism/big-gov (insert spooky ism here) energy for US to do it.
I mean the f35 contract was SPECIFICALLY written this way so whoever gets it makes hella money from it, this is why they lobbied for this to happen, it will keep company afloat and shareholders happy for decades.
They wanted to do the 'mcdonalds icecream machines' scam but f35s
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The Pentagon has significantly reduced planned procurements of F-35 fifth generation fighters for Fiscal Year 2026, cutting numbers to just 47 aircraft, which represents a 45 percent reduction from the 86 aircraft acquired in Fiscal Year 2024. Orders include just 24 of the F-35A variant for the Air Force, or less than half of prior procurement numbers, as well as 11 of the F-35B variant for the U.S. Marine Corps, and 12 F-35C variants, of which the Navy will receive eight and the Marines four. The Department of Defence cutting of its planned F-35A procurements by 50 percent to 24 fighters for Fiscal Year 2026

 

[TK3600]

That would make too much sense, and has too much socialism/communism/big-gov (insert spooky ism here) energy for US to do it.
I mean the f35 contract was SPECIFICALLY written this way so whoever gets it makes hella money from it, this is why they lobbied for this to happen, it will keep company afloat and shareholders happy for decades.
They wanted to do the 'mcdonalds icecream machines' scam but f35s
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So it is safe to say J-20/35 production will far exceed F-35 for the past years and for many years in the future.

 

[taxiya]

At some point you'd think they would just seize the data rights to the F-35 and be done with it. They seem to have very little ability to force Lockheed to change their ways.

The state power is built by various business interest groups including LM, the government including the military is just the servent of those companies. So it is not that "they" can or want to force or control LM, it is the other way around that LM owns "they". One may argue that LM alone doesn't own the whole congress, true, but if any opposition punished LM for failing the contract, their own financier will get punished some other days. So the untold rule is "we are all good, just let the taxpayers foot the bill".

 

[SlothmanAllen]

So it is safe to say J-20/35 production will far exceed F-35 for the past years and for many years in the future.

I believe overall production of the F-35 is expected to stay at around ~150 per year, at least for the next little while. J-20 and J-35 combined should exceed that (based on what has been speculated).

Remember that the F-35 has a huge backlog of international orders, so even if US reduces some orders, they could shift production to meet international demand. On top of that, the US reduction in demand is likely to be to temporary at best.