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An engine shortage is the newest problem to hit the F-35 enterprise February 12 Members of the 380th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron Air Terminal Operations Center wheel an F-35A Lightning II engine out of a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, August 26, 2020, at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates. (Tech. Sgt. Charles Taylor/U.S. Air Force) Correction 2/12/2021 at 6:23 p.m. EST: In an earlier version of the story, a defense official gave an erroneous target for power module produ...

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The U.S. Air Force Is Planning To Get Six New E-11A With The Battlefield Airborne Communication Node Payload The U.S. Air Force Is Planning To Get Six New E-11A With The Battlefield Airborne Communication Node Payload File photo of a 430th Expeditionary Electronic Combat Squadron E-11A aircraft outfitted with a Battlefield Airborne Communications Node at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, April 4, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Anna-Marie Wyant) With the new aircraft the USAF will triple the...

Air Force Reduces Exhibition Flights on New F-35 Engine Woes Bloomberg 2/10/2021 Tony Capaccio © Bloomberg An attendee takes a photograph of a U.S. Marine Corps. F-35B Lightning II fighter jet, manufactured by Lockheed Martin Corp., performing maneuvers during the Singapore Airshow at the Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore, on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. Plane makers and airlines are exploring new designs to reduce fuel burn and cut carbon emissions in a warming climate. Ble...

F-35 Demo Team Forced To Cut Airshow Appearances Due To Fleet-Wide Engine Issues F-35 Demo Team Forced To Cut Airshow Appearances Due To Fleet-Wide Engine Issues An F-35A of the 388th FW based at Hill Air Force Base. (Image credit: U.S. Air Force) The 2021 air show schedule for the Air Force’s F-35A Lightning II Demonstration Team was cut by about one-third because of engine issue. The F-35 Demo Team will not display the capabilities of the F-35A at all the 22 performances initially schedule ...

Air Force cuts back exhibition flights on new F-35 engine woes Tony Capaccio, Bloomberg FacebookTwitterEmail A U.S. Marine Corps. F-35B Lightning II fighter jet performs maneuvers during the Singapore Airshow in Singapore on Feb. 11, 2020.Bloomberg photo by SeongJoon Cho. The Air Force F-35 jet team that performs at air shows around the world has had to scale back appearances this year. The problem: a growing shortage of engines because of longer repair periods, some due to previously unreport...

Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Allison Transmission Awarded $3.6 Million Engineering Contract to Maintain Superior Performance of the Abrams Powertrain February 3, 2021 GMT INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 3, 2021-- The U.S. Army selected Allison Transmission, the largest global manufacturer of medium- and heavy-duty fully automatic transmissions for commercial and military vehicles, to undertake an engineering program that builds...

February 4, 2021 In the summer of 2010, Nina Eichacker was an intern at the US Department of Energy, analyzing the successes and failures of energy projects that received DOE funding. She didn’t realize that a high-profile failure was brewing right under her nose, and would soon put the department’s loan program—one of the government’s biggest pots of money for clean energy innovation—on ice. Ten years later, Eichacker is among the economists urging the Biden administration to revital...

-- Expeditionary Airfield (EAF) Landing Systems teams from the Aircraft Launch and Recovery (ALRE) Program Office (PMA-251) had two action-packed weeks last month improving EAF landing systems at Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field Bogue, North Carolina, and the Airfield and EAF ALRE School in Pensacola, Florida. Since September 2019, EAF engineers have been testing commercially available equipment for a program called the LED Airfield Upgrade. December’s events of evaluating new equipme...

UK grows national F-35 support with LANCE contract 14 January 2021 by Gareth Jennings The United Kingdom is growing the level of organic sustainment and support it is able to provide for its fleet of Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning combat aircraft, with the GBP76 million (USD101 million) Lightning Air System National Availability Enterprise (LANCE) contract. With 21 of an initial planned 48 F-35B aircraft so far delivered to the UK, the country has announced Project LANCE to grow the level of o...