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

TerraN_EmpirE

TerraN_EmpirE

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The raw material was worked in the US. With the Russians being at the time unawares as to its end product. The CIA used dummy companies to buy the materials.

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Apparently they are not removing the existing magnets but are seeking another source. For future supply. They are halting acceptance. I was miss informed as to the nature of the situation.
This still falls into a situation where the supply chain would be susceptible to issues. In regards to sourcing of the material, potential for tampering and supply chain delivery. The Chinese government has a near monopoly of rare earths. So it makes sense to shift now rather than waiting for a potential problem later. Again the European Energy situation is a perfect allegory. Had the EU states shopped a source of fuel other than Russia in 2018 as opposed to now then the shock of Russia cutting the line wouldn’t have hit as hard.
It’s better to secure the chain now rather then if China and the US find themselves in a fight.
 
Temstar

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siegecrossbow said:
I guess it is a matter of agree to disagree. Even during the Cold War the US used processed titanium from the Soviet Union for aerospace purposes.

A more logical response would be identifying the supply chain issue and work on solving it while the parts are still available. A better one would be making this public after the problem has been solved. Now the Chinese actually knows that there is a supply chain weakness to exploit, and may act on it.
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I reckon the exaggerated response is ideological, America's own Cultural Revolution thinking - 宁要资本主义的草 不要社会主义的苗
I don't think this would be the only case of this in US MIC supply chain. If they look close enough they will probably find similar cases all over the place.
 
TerraN_EmpirE

TerraN_EmpirE

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Actually it’s the Pentagon’s own rules. Apparently they are trying to get a waver. To allow the pause to be lifted well also trying to get the approved chain back into working.
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Basically a supplier to a supplier the Honeywell used alloy sourced from outside the approved chain. This triggered an immune response by the DOD.
 
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LOL...

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Lawmaker Says South Korea’s F-35As Grounded By Malfunctions 172 Times Over 18 Months​

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South Korean lawmaker concerned about the issues affecting ROKAF F-35s.​


The reliability of the ROKAF (Republic Of Korea Air Force) F-35A fighters is causing concern in South Korea according to an
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published by the Yonhap News Agency. According to the report, citing Air Force data, Rep. Shin Won-sik of the ruling People Power Party lawa said that the South Korean F-35s have been “operationally unready” 234 times over 18-month period ending in June 2022.

The low availability rate, caused by malfunctions, grounded the ROKAF F-35s on 172 instances, while in 62 cases the jets could fly but they were somehow limited, and unable to carry out certain missions. “Grounded fifth-generation fighters could carry out missions for only 12 days on average last year and 11 days in the first half of this year” the report says.

Backed by this data, the lawmaker stressed the South Korean military “should make strenuous efforts not only to introduce such high-end weapons systems but also to maintain them”.

Despite suffering frequent issues (especially compared with older generation jets like the F-4E and the F-5 that were respectively grounded only 26 and 28 times over the same period), ROKAF said that the fleet met the target operation rate of 75 percent. Not bad, compared to the availability rate of the U.S. F-35 fleet that you can find
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While we still miss some clarification about the data disclosed by the South Korean MP (we don’t know, for instance, how availability rate is calculated by ROKAF), it seems clear that, despite some aircraft have been grounded for long times, the service, that admitted difficulties obtaining parts for defects, has been able to launch the number of sorties of mission capable aircraft required to maintaining the readiness posture needed to deter North Korean threats.

On Mar. 25, 2022, on the day following North Korea’s launch of the new Hwasongpho-17 “monster” intercontinental ballistic missile, the South responded by putting its
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in parade: an
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the ROKAF has received was widely advertised across the social networks with the slogan “Invisible power to protect South Korea” to show that the South Korea’s military “will use the F-35A with all-weather stealth and precision strike capabilities to achieve overwhelming strategic victories and maintain a full military posture that will deter further North Korea’s actions”.

The ROKAF F-35 fleet is based at Cheongju AB, southeast of Seoul, in the center part of South Korea, home of ROKAF’s 17th Fighter Wing and its two child units, the 151 Fighter Squadron and 152 Fighter Squadron, that operate the 5th generation jet. The Republic of Korea selected the F-35 at the end of its F-X III fighter acquisition program with the signing of a Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) between the U.S. and Korean governments on Sept. 30, 2014. In total, South Korea ordered 40 F-35A, the last of those was delivered in January this year.

In December 2017, South Korea’s Defence Acquisition Program Administration established a process for procuring the 20 additional aircraft, the
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, citing multiple government sources. The first F-35A for the ROKAF, known as aircraft AW-1, took flight in Fort Worth, Texas, in March 2018. In the same year, the first F-35A was delivered to Luke AFB, Arizona, for pilot training while in 2019, the first F-35As were delivered to their permanent base in South Korea.

Following a
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caused by an avionic system issue, the fleet was temporarily grounded in January 2022.
 
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