The American Military Industrial Corporation Lockheed Martin in 2022 will provide customers less than fighters of the fifth generation F-35 Lightning II, which was previously planned, in accordance with the schedule revised, taking into account the impact of COVID-19 coronavirus infection on personnel and production, Bloomberg reports .
In 2022, the company instead of the planned 158-163 aircraft will supply 151-153 fighters. In 2023, it is scheduled to put 156 aircraft. In the current year, the largest contractor of the Pentagon should put 133-139 fighters.
According to the TEAL GROUP Aviation Analytics, Richard Abulafia, the revised Lockheed Martin schedule, shows production limitations and failures in supply chain as a result of a pandemic and, possibly, other reasons. ” According to him, “these are not those 170 with superfluous [aircraft], which we [annually] expected in the next few years.”
In September, a member of the Association of Historians of the Second World War Dmitry Khazanov in a TASS column noted that when creating a nozzle of the Emighty-Mousing Engine of the American F-35B Lightning II, the idea embodied in the Soviet Deck Fighter vertical takeoff and landing Yak-141.
F-35 Lightning II – a family of low-alightous multifunctional fighters of the fifth generation, the development and release of which since 2001 is engaged in the American company Lockheed Martin. The fighter is produced in three versions: A (normal for Air Force), B (with a shortened take-off and vertical landing) and C (deck).