{"id":41487,"date":"2025-12-23T20:11:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/lockheed-martin-accused-of-poor-f-35-fighter-jet-maintenance\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T20:11:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:11:28","slug":"lockheed-martin-accused-of-poor-f-35-fighter-jet-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/lockheed-martin-accused-of-poor-f-35-fighter-jet-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin accused of poor F-35 fighter jet maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"

The F-35 fighter jets' readiness for flight in 2024 was only 50% due to poor maintenance by Lockheed Martin and a lack of Pentagon oversight. Despite this, the Pentagon paid the company $1.7 billion without penalties, and the US Air Force reduced its F-35 order for 2026 due to rising costs.<\/p>\n

\"Lockheed<\/p>\n

The most advanced US F-35 fighter jets were ready for flight only 50% of the time in 2024. According to a report by the US Department of Defense Inspector General, the reason was poor maintenance by Lockheed Martin Corporation and a lack of oversight by the Pentagon. This is reported by Bloomberg, writes UNN.<\/p>\n

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Despite the aircraft not meeting requirements, the Pentagon paid Lockheed $1.7 billion without any penalties. The $2 trillion program has been plagued by engine problems and delivery delays for years.<\/p>\n

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Earlier this year, Lockheed created a "plan to address the root cause of F-35 availability issues," which included purchasing additional spare parts and improving "maintenance practices."<\/p>\n

\u2014 a company spokesperson said, adding that the new contract incentivizes improved fleet readiness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Due to rising costs, the US Air Force halved its F-35 order for 2026. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump have increased pressure on contractors, demanding investment in innovation instead of executive bonuses.<\/p>\n

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The F-35 fighter jets' readiness for flight in 2024 was only 50% due to poor maintenance by Lockheed Martin and a lack of Pentagon oversight. Despite this, the Pentagon paid the company $1.7 billion without penalties, and the US Air Force reduced its F-35 order for 2026 due to rising costs. The most advanced US […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}