The Navy plans to curtail Super Hornet production in fiscal 2022. It remains unclear, however, whether that effort will be successful. Source link
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Lorenzo Guerini said he “confirmed that the program would continue,” after calls from Italy’s Five Star party to halt F-35 purchases for a year to pay for a coronavirus rebound. Source link
Day-to-day restrictions on supersonic flight won’t stop pilots from pushing the F-35 to the limits in combat, an F-35 test pilot tells Defense News. Source link
Lockheed Martin is under contract to deliver 141 F-35 jets this year. Amid COVID-19 restrictions, it’s unclear whether that will happen. Source link
“We get parts from all over the place. It’s so crazy,” President Donald Trump said of the F-35 on Thursday. Source link
According to the GAO, the number of F-35 parts delivered late skyrocketed from less than 2,000 in August 2017 to upwards of 10,000 in July 2019. Source link
The latest request for a proposal for the TLVS program is the third iteration, after previous attempts to draft a contract failed. Source link
Raytheon and Lockheed Martin’s joint venture for the Javelin has completed production of its first F-Model of the shoulder-fired antitank weapon. Source link
Dennis Goege previously worked for the German Aerospace Center, DLR, based in Cologne, where he oversaw defense and security research programs. Source link