F-35 Production Still Marred by Quality Woes, Pentagon Test Office Says
Story by Tony Capaccio • 1d
(Bloomberg) -- Lockheed Martin Corp. is still delivering F-35 fighter jet aircraft with quality defects after 13 years of production, according to the Pentagon test office’s annual weapons-evaluations report.
Quality defects from the production line “are still being discovered in the field,” the assessment found. In one case, a US Marine Corps squadron in California found defects with “a number of F-35C aircraft delivered” to the unit for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, it said.
On the positive side, internal reports by the Pentagon’s F-35 program office indicate a 47% drop between 2016 and 2023 in poor production-line practices resulting in scrapped parts, rework and repair and a 63% reduction in quality problems in delivered jets, according to the test office.
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