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Lockheed’s F-35 Has Fewer Unfixed Defects as Key Test Approaches
Story by Tony Capaccio • 6h ago
(Bloomberg) -- The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin Corp. have reduced the laundry list of deficiencies on the contractor’s F-35 with the fighter jet, the world’s costliest weapons program, due for a key combat simulation by mid-year.
The number of “open deficiency reports” now stands at 831, the Defense Department’s F-35 program office said, down from 845 in September 2021. Earlier last year the total stood at 864, including eight “Category 1” defects deemed the most serious to pilot safety, flight operations or both.
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Five “Category 1” defects remain, but none of them are in group described as potentially jeopardizing “safety, security or another critical requirement,” according to Russell Goemaere, a spokesman for the F-35 office.
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