Lockheed Martin Corp expects it will take around 15 to 20 years to bring the cost per flight hour of the F-35 below fourth-generation fighter jets ...
AVALON, Australia: Lockheed Martin Corp expects it will take around 15 to 20 years to bring the cost per flight hour of the F-35 below fourth-generation fighter jets such as the F-16, the head of the F-35 program said on Wednesday .
"If we project that out based on the initiatives we have in place, we believe as we move out to the 2035-2040 timeframe we can get that cost down to under what a fourth gen is today," in the range of US$20,000-25,000 per flight hour. "The US has been very slow to fund that in the depots specifically like Hill Air Force Base," she said."They should have started those projects a few years ago."sentifi.com"When you have 180 aircraft it is probably okay. Now we have 300. It is the scale of the volume increases which is why there is a concern," she said.The US Air Force did not respond immediately to a request for comment outside usual business hours.
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