The first F-35s to be delivered with a set of upgrades known as Technology Refresh 3 will initially be used for training flights, but will not be ready for combat until 2025, Lockheed Martin said in an earnings call Tuesday.

Lockheed chief executive Jim Taiclet told investors the company is focused on fully implementing TR-3 — a set of upgrades to the F-35′s software and hardware, including better displays, computer memory and contracting power — and has made progress in recent months.

Significant changes to the hardware and software will require several months for pilots to learn how to use the new features? And the first upgraded F-35s will be used, at first, for that training?
[Sarcasm] Who could have foreseen that? [/Sarcasm]

"That's her baby now..🐈🐾🐕😍"


https://twitter.com/Yoda4ever/status/1782889924380721283

 ‘Sussex Survivors Club’: Meghan Markle ‘bullying’ claims could tarnish lifestyle brand
By Social Links for Lauren Sarner
Published April 24, 2024, 12:26 p.m. ET

The duchess is jammed up.

Meghan Markle, 42, has a new lifestyle brand called American Riviera Orchard, which will include products like jars of jam.

But “bullying” claims may hurt the brand, a royal expert says.

“Where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” business development consultant Hilary Fordwich told Fox News Digital.

“There have been too many examples of the ‘Sussex Survivors Club’ for the allegations not to be true … In contrast, not even one such report has ever been raised regarding Kate Middleton.”

Fordwich was referring to former palace aide Samantha Cohen, who confirmed in a recent interview with the Australian Herald Sun that she was one of 10 staffers who were questioned about allegations that Markle “bullied” staffers during her time in the palace.

In 2017, Cohen, who had previously worked for Queen Elizabeth, was tasked with getting Markle ready for the royal family.

Royal expert Tom Bower wrote in the Daily Mail on Tuesday, “Certainly, I believe that Ms. Cohen was soon exasperated, within six months or so, and that Meghan either disagreed with, or failed to understand, the non-negotiable elements of royalty. I also believe that members of Samantha Cohen’s team viewed this as an irresponsible self-indulgence. Both sides would blame a clash of cultures.”

Cohen, who resigned in 2018, compared her former job to “working with teenagers,” according to “Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown” by Valentine Low.

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https://nypost.com/2024/04/24/entertainment/sussex-survivors-club-meghan-markle-bullying-claims-could-tarnish-lifestyle-brand/

First upgraded F-35s won’t be ready for combat until next year
By Stephen Losey
 Apr 23, 02:33 PM
 
The first F-35s to be delivered with a set of upgrades known as Technology Refresh 3 will initially be used for training flights, but will not be ready for combat until 2025, Lockheed Martin said in an earnings call Tuesday.

Lockheed chief executive Jim Taiclet told investors the company is focused on fully implementing TR-3 — a set of upgrades to the F-35′s software and hardware, including better displays, computer memory and contracting power — and has made progress in recent months.


But TR-3 is already a year overdue, and is not likely to be ready until at least the third quarter of 2024. Lockheed Martin is still building F-35s intended to have TR-3, but since last summer the government has refused to accept delivery of those jets without the upgrades.

https://www.defensenews.com/air/2024/04/23/first-upgraded-f-35s-wont-be-ready-for-combat-until-next-year/

I hope he doesn't believe the Corps is going to be significantly better than the Army.