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Seriously? Unbelievable.
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter News, Videos and pics Thread
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Seriously? Unbelievable.
Jura The idiot
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Jura in Wonderland
after
First F-35 Block Buy Contract Awarded
headline, quickly followed by
"The US can’t participate in the Block Buy—akin to a US “multi-year procurement”—as such because a program must be in full rate production to qualify, and the F-35 is still in a “low rate” phase."
sentence inside ... here's the official:
Contracts
Press Operations
Release No: CR-082-17
April 28, 2017
CONTRACTS
NAVY
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a not-to-exceed $1,377,002,000 advance acquisition contract for long-lead time materials, parts, components, and effort for 130 low-rate initial production Lot 12 F-35 Lightning II aircraft for the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, non-U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) participants, and foreign military sales customers. In addition this contract provides long-lead time materials, parts, components, and effort for 110 Lot 13 and 14 F-35 Lightning II aircraft for the non-U.S. DoD participants and foreign military sales customers. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas (30 percent); El Segundo, California (25 percent); Warton, United Kingdom (20 percent); Orlando, Florida (10 percent); Nashua, New Hampshire (5 percent); Nagoya, Japan (5 percent); and Baltimore, Maryland (5 percent), and is expected to be completed in December 2018. Fiscal 2017 aircraft procurement (Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps); non-U.S. DoD participant; and foreign military sales funds in the amount of $1,377,002,000 are being obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This order combines purchases for the Air Force ($315,500,000; 23 percent); Marine Corps ($128,925,000; 9 percent); Navy ($43,509,000; 3 percent); non-U.S. DoD participant ($524,446,000; 38 percent), and foreign military sales customers ($364,622,000; 27 percent). This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N00019-17-C-0001).
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after
First F-35 Block Buy Contract Awarded
headline, quickly followed by
"The US can’t participate in the Block Buy—akin to a US “multi-year procurement”—as such because a program must be in full rate production to qualify, and the F-35 is still in a “low rate” phase."
sentence inside ... here's the official:
Contracts
Press Operations
Release No: CR-082-17
April 28, 2017
CONTRACTS
NAVY
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a not-to-exceed $1,377,002,000 advance acquisition contract for long-lead time materials, parts, components, and effort for 130 low-rate initial production Lot 12 F-35 Lightning II aircraft for the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, non-U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) participants, and foreign military sales customers. In addition this contract provides long-lead time materials, parts, components, and effort for 110 Lot 13 and 14 F-35 Lightning II aircraft for the non-U.S. DoD participants and foreign military sales customers. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas (30 percent); El Segundo, California (25 percent); Warton, United Kingdom (20 percent); Orlando, Florida (10 percent); Nashua, New Hampshire (5 percent); Nagoya, Japan (5 percent); and Baltimore, Maryland (5 percent), and is expected to be completed in December 2018. Fiscal 2017 aircraft procurement (Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps); non-U.S. DoD participant; and foreign military sales funds in the amount of $1,377,002,000 are being obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This order combines purchases for the Air Force ($315,500,000; 23 percent); Marine Corps ($128,925,000; 9 percent); Navy ($43,509,000; 3 percent); non-U.S. DoD participant ($524,446,000; 38 percent), and foreign military sales customers ($364,622,000; 27 percent). This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N00019-17-C-0001).
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Journalism ethics and accuracy flew out of the door.
Jura The idiot
General
LOL at least they've removed that Tweet by now
Its an honest editing mistake guys, happens all the time, you get the wrong picture, with the wrong article,,,, editors often don't know about the material they're editing... but
There are some pictures floating around on twitter, of the F-35 in the "mach loop" if somebody could post them that would be awesome, and in real life its a very pretty slick airframe! Looks great and very fast!
What idea to have posted it !
have u recognize these small birds u pilot ?
So in internet we have many things many stupidity also... cuz in general free and u need to look for accurate things, in more articles are in general not detailed the best are in Paper mag sometimes PDF or very few Sites mainly Blogs
- in more and very possible better exist again mag in paper all online/in informatic/digital is definitely not good my feeling of moderately old white guy
the progress is good but Nothing is perfect u can be sure and too progreess is bad nah but if we need to pay for all ... i am not billonaire me and the progress can be interesting but u need to check Buddy -The best stuff is in Paper mag especialy for ORBAT, TOE - some détails also very rare to catch some weapons load by ex
etc... - my big weakness since always yet very young !
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Possible yes but it is not an military place still remains curious Journalist don' t know F-35 or an error possible... despite it what interest to post it here ! ? normaly we have members enough aware, I hope.
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Posted here to note that u can't believe everything u see reported or hear. Also a good laugh ! Now somebody post those Mach loop pictures! Please
Jura The idiot
General