Testers Lament 'Little Progress' On Testing Crucial To Service F-35 IOC Plans

摘要

Flight testing of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter made "little progress" in fiscal year 2013 on activities critical to Marine Corps, Air Force and Navy plans to declare their variants of the stealth fighter ready for combat operations, according to the Pentagon's top weapons tester. The office of the director of operational test and evaluation, in its FY-13 annual report to the defense secretary and Congress, warns that JSF Block 2B software development--central to Air Force and Marine Corps plans to begin fielding the F-35 - fell behind schedule in FY-13, creating "significant pressure" on plans to complete development and flight test the initial combat software package.