LM started the F 35 development like a western movie with cow boy shooting their way through the main high street and drinking cola… Now that they’ve hit reality nobody knows the timetable for the F 35, except that it doesn’t look too good with each passing year. The political support is starting to fade, voices for alternatives are getting stronger… And they still have a long road to go to make the plane operational.
Unfortunately Boeing isn’t proposing anything new, the silent eagle isn’t doing much progress, and it’s too late to cancel and launch a new program. So the US will export F 35 variant, Europe will start to seriously struggle when the F 35 come on-line to export the Typhoon (they will have to chose to support politicly one or the other and nobody wants to angry USA), France will do what France has always done, and Russia, China and India will likely start to win major share of the world market for affordable fighter aircraft…
Oh and remember originally the JSF was supposed to be operational between 2012 and 2015 for the latest !:o
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