U.S. DOD F-35 orders flat for 4 years

LRIP 8 (hand-shake)

USAF------19
USN---------4
USMC-------6
Norway-----2
UK----------4
Italy--------2
Israel--FMS-2
Japan--FMS-4


LRIP-8 deliveries start in 2016.

Notice the U.S. DOD annual numbers over the years are still flat.

LRIP 5 DOD (32):

USAF------22
USN--------7
USMC-------3

--LRIP 6 DOD (31):

USAF------18
USN--------7
USMC-------6


--LRIP 7 DOD (29):

USAF------19
USN--------4
USMC-------6


--LRIP 8 DOD (29):

USAF------19
USN--------4
USMC-------6

That does not make the comment by the model airplane glue sniffing fan-base credible: "The program’s burgeoning maturity is becoming clear".

As for the "price"...the aircraft doesn't actually work. Here is a snapshot of  the money involved in an F-35 LRIP batch.

Again... here are the hopes and dreams of the Ponzi scheme back in 2003... 6 LRIPs and full rate production.

Now for the billions in lost business. Imagine, your business was told an unsupportable hope by your government on how much cash was on the table for the F-35.

The big numbers were all a dream to hook the JSF Partner nation. Who is to blame? Many, but if your research and analysis are LM talking points, the blame rests with you.


U.S. DOD F-35 aircraft to be produced with each batch. 2003 vs. today.

“It will affordable because already there are 3,000 aircraft on the order books.”
—27 June 2002, Air Marshal Houston, Defence press announcement, Australia joins the F-35 program—

Curious. Who pulls the puppet strings of Breaking Defense?


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-Time's Battleland - 5 Part series on F-35 procurement - 2013 
-Summary of Air Power Australia F-35 points
-Bill Sweetman, Aviation Week and the F-35
-U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) F-35 reports
-F-35 JSF: Cold War Anachronism Without a Mission
-History of F-35 Production Cuts
-Looking at the three Japan contenders (maneuverability)
-How the Canadian DND misleads the public about the F-35
-Value of STOVL F-35B over-hyped
-Cuckoo in the nest--U.S. DOD DOT&E F-35 report is out
-6 Feb 2012 Letter from SASC to DOD boss Panetta questioning the decision to lift probation on the F-35B STOVL.
-USAFs F-35 procurement plan is not believable
-December 2011 Australia/Canada Brief
-F-35 Key Performance Perimeters (KPP) and Feb 2012 CRS report
-F-35 DOD Select Acquisition Report (SAR) FY2012
-Release of F-35 2012 test report card shows continued waste on a dud program
-Australian Defence answers serious F-35 project concerns with "so what?"
-Land of the Lost (production cut history update March 2013)
-Outgoing LM F-35 program boss admits to flawed weight assumptions (March 2013)
-A look at the F-35 program's astro-turfing
-F-35 and F-16 cost per flying hour
-Is this aircraft worth over $51B of USMC tac-air funding?
-Combat radius and altitude, A model
-F-35A, noise abatement and airfields and the USAF
-Deceptive marketing practice: F-35 blocks
-The concurrency fraud
-The dung beetle's "it's known" lie
-F-35's air-to-air ability limited
-F-35 Blocks--2006 and today
-The F-35B design is leaking fuel
-F-35 deliveries
-ADF's wacky F-35 assumptions
-Gauging performance, the 2008 F-35, Davis dream brief
-Aboriginal brought out as a prop
-Super Kendall's F-35 problem
-LM sales force in pre-Internet era
-History of F-35 engine problems
-Compare
-JSF hopes and dreams...early days of the Ponzi Scheme
-The Prognostics
-2002--Australia joins the F-35 program