'The Pentagon's job, after all, is to maximize the military's readiness to fight and win the nation's wars, not to keep Lockheed happy and save short-term funds.' -TomRtweets
Such a contract would add to Lockheed's profits and might also save the government money. In the event of war with China, however, a shortage of F-35 spare parts would be disastrous. That matters because most U.S. military analysts believe such a conflict over Taiwan is more likely than not by 2030. This is only the latest problem with the F-35. The jet has long been defined by malfunctions and soaring cost overruns.In 2023, the F-35 is very well suited to a conflict with Russia.
Still, the F-35 is in service and would inevitably play a key role in any Taiwan war. In turn, the Pentagon must maximize the readiness of its F-35 forces to sustain the fight in a wartime environment facing numerically and sortie-generation superior enemy forces. That brings us back to the spare parts concern.
Audrey Brady, Lockheed’s executive for the F-35, tells DefenseNews that the PBL deal would cater for a 10% month-on-month surge in flight hours. But Brady adds that"the current construct [of the PBL draft] doesn’t have a war-level surge; it has a month-to-month flight hour surge." Instead, the Pentagon and Lockheed want to"wargame" those war-level expectations. This is Washington-speak for"put those expectations off for another day somewhere over the rainbow.
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