In a report, the US Government Accountability Office revealed that Lockheed Martin is running out of parking space for F-35s that the Pentagon has refused to take.
The US Government Accounting Office (GAO) has provided us with the most recent blotter item. It is headlined "F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: Program Continues to Encounter Production Issues and Modernization Delays."GAO claims that Lockheed Martin is out of room to store all of the finished F-35s that the Pentagon won't take.
These aren't individual failures. The Department of Defense (DOD) completely suspended the planes' acceptance of the stealth fighters last summer as Lockheed worked out major hardware and software issues related to "Technology Refresh-3" (TR-3), a $1.8 billion package meant to increase the jets' capabilities.
At Hill Air Force Base in 2020, USAF F-35 pilots perform an "elephant walk" -- an exercise supposedly meant to prepare for mass takeoffs, but which strikes us more as a self-indulgent, $4...
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