The US Congress is shaken by the F-35 scandal. The fact that the F-35s, which were marketed to the global defense market as “flawless and magnificent”, were “unable to fight” was revealed by the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), the largest independent inspection institution in the USA, which started a great debate. According to the information in the report submitted to Congress last week; Many of the F-35’s flight systems, design and production data fall below the criteria and approval set by Congress. Although the US Congress allowed the mass production of F-35s; The report includes the claim that the Pentagon was “extremely inadequately informed” about the aircraft, which fell short of many of the criteria required for such production. Allegedly, the Pentagon also submitted reports to Congress with incomplete and incompatible results regarding the F-35s.
FULL OF PROBLEMS
The data in the highly confidential ‘Operational Test and Evaluation Report’ presented by the Pentagon to the US Senate and the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee consists of only summary information. Detailed information revealed by POGO: F-35 is not easy to produce, from production to pricing, ttoIt reveals that it cannot meet many reliability criteria in the clinical context.
NOT READY FOR WAR
In the report; It was underlined that employees authorized by the US Congress on the subject had only limited access to information in the Pentagon. Also in the POGO report; It is also warned that the US Congress should request all technical reports prepared on F-35s from the Pentagon and that the production decision should be re-evaluated. P.According to OGO’s evaluation, the only conclusion from many Pentagon reports with incompatible data is that “F-35 warplanes are not ready for war.”
According to the report, while the Pentagon set a goal of increasing the combat mission capability of all other warplanes by 80 percent, this rate was left at 62 percent for the F-35. In the report, which shared the information that 3 aircraft experienced serious technical problems even when deployed in the classic formation of 4, the Pentagon is clearly blamed with the statement “The results of the tests were either invalid or redesigned.”
F-15 IS MORE EFFECTIVE
The following statements are noteworthy in the report, which also mentions that the F-35 is extremely costly logistically: “While F-15s can be deployed on the front line and quickly reach their targets many times, the F-35’s requirements and flight errors do not allow this. “A transport plane full of maintenance and technical support equipment must also be sent to the fronts where the F-35 is sent.”
AGAINST THE LAW
While the report also includes information that the F-35Bs produced for the Navy cannot take off from most amphibious ships, it comments that the aircraft’s stealth capabilities are “difficult to track and report, and they were not subjected to mandatory tests.” The report submitted to Congress points out that the Pentagon ignored a critical law. “Allowing mass production of F-35s is against this law” It is said.
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