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The US Marines F-35B variant of the Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter is still failing to meet its minimum performance goals by 45%, and both other versions of the aircraft are also at least 13% below minimum performance requirements, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a new report.

F-35 Fighter still suffers at least 65 basic deficiencies where it continues to fail to meet basic testing specifications, the Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) reported.

Lawmakers said the Technology Refresh-3 upgrade is headed for a nearly $1B cost overrun.

Costs of the US armed forces F-35 Joint Strike Fighter continue to soar out of control by at least $44 billion with new delays still emerging and no resolution in sight.

This is unsustainable, DOD concedes—and may be delaying the creation of depots that could fix the repair backlog.

Company officials no longer expect DOD to approve a switch to performance-based logistics by year’s end.

New GAO report details another $1.4 billion in upgrade costs, and additional delays.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan won the Turkish presidential run-off on Sunday, defeating his political rival, the leader of the Republican Peoples Party (CHP), Kemal Kilicdaroglu. How could Erdogans win influence Turkiyes foreign policy and its relations with NATO?

A new report found that the Department of Defense needs to improve its oversight and reporting process for spare F-35 aircraft parts.

Michael Maloof, former senior security policy analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, told Sputnik that “the accounting office at the Pentagon and its procurement arm is always messing up.”