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This is a thread specifically for the war, not a general megathread (use the pinned /c/genzedong thread for that).
Please keep related news in this thread rather than making separate posts. Remember to include sources and avoid spreading rumours.
🇺🇸 Pentagon and Lockheed Martin agree on a 10-year plan to build 850 F-35s
The deal covers at least 850 jets for the US military between 2027 and 2036, plus spare parts, upgrade kits, maintenance and international orders. Lockheed plans to keep production at 156 aircraft per year.
It isn’t a contract yet. Congress still has to approve multi-year funding before prices and schedules are finalized.
Lockheed will put up at least $7 billion of its own money to expand capacity and fix its supply chain, and claims the program will support 317,000 US jobs.
The F-35 makes up close to 40% of Lockheed’s aeronautics revenue. With wars in Ukraine and West Asia driving arms spending, the US weapons industry is locking in a decade of guaranteed profits.
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We all know this is going to be a resounding failure for actual production and a resounding success for filling the pockets at Lockheed.
Not looking good for the ole US with China’s current production of 5th gen fighters being around double that with least 300 J-20s plus J-35s being built a year. Then you also have the J-20 being superior for air-to-air combat, and the US having to distribute it’s supply among it’s many vassals and theaters of war while China gets to pocket every jet it produces for itself for it’s much less overextended needs.
This is just, i mean capital has the…
But even if they cost more F35 can…
Line go up monkye cerebellum hours, profit is god. 🙄