F-35 Engine Games

PW as the hero? Reuters tries to tell the story with its' majority pro-F-35 spin.

He said the company would have to get updated pricing data from its suppliers, who account for 80 percent of the work on the engine, if the automatic budget cuts that took effect on March 1 result in a reduction in the number of F-35 jets to be built in fiscal 2013.

Hard to lower costs on the motor when it is turning into a loss-leader enslaved to the hopes of future service contracts because of the massive amounts of cuts to F-35 orders: before the latest budget fear-mongering.

What would a PW F135 cost if there were hundreds of F-35s being made while the GE/Rolls F136 was also a motor choice?

One of the lies sold to Congress to sign up for the JSF years ago is that of 2 vendor choices for motors. Oh, what great VALUE!

After the first F-35 Nunn-McCurdy breach, the DOD F-35 program had to cut costs because of poor program management decisions unrelated to the GE/Rolls motor. The program turned the GE/Rolls motor which was part of the JSF plan, into an evil stalking horse.