January 20 2011
The Defense Dept. has discovered new reliability issues with the Air Force and Marine variants of the F-35 aircraft.
A report by the Pentagon's director of Operational Test and Evaluation reveals additional problems that were uncovered during flight testing of the F-35 Lightning II fighter, reports the Air Force Times.
The Air Force's conventional F-35A and the Marine Corps' short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing (STOVL) aircraft have both experienced "transonic wing roll-off"...
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