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"GAO offered one explanation for the problem: the Defense Department simply didn’t take into account the time necessary to put parts under contract and produce them when it was doing its budget planning."
“Nineteen percent of F-35 parts have a lead time of more than 2 years,” the GAO noted.
Unacceptable.
“Nineteen percent of F-35 parts have a lead time of more than 2 years,” the GAO noted.
Unacceptable.
Marine Corps F-35s dogged by parts shortages
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Posted 6 y ago
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Posted 6 y ago
As with all equipment. I know, we have units down because the major part we need is on back order.
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MAJ James Woods
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True and when the "back order" nature of our logistics system is normalized too much that it handicaps our operational readiness, I would hope DoD and supporting agencies do a better job addressing the problem with a long term solution. I watch two tank battalion's worth of M1s deadlined for two months in Korea because track parts were on backorder. We were grinding metal on some tanks.
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Posted 6 y ago
Maybe they should give each squadron a 3D printer and they can make their own...
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