{"id":54297,"date":"2024-05-27T17:13:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T07:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/gao-flags-serious-f-35-program-delays-2025-hardware-software-malfunctions\/"},"modified":"2024-05-27T17:13:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T07:13:41","slug":"gao-flags-serious-f-35-program-delays-into-2025-amid-hardware-software-malfunctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=54297","title":{"rendered":"GAO Flags Serious F-35 Program Delays Into 2025 Amid Hardware &amp; Software Malfunctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/gao-24-106909.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >US Government Accountability Office (GAO) report<\/a> shed some light on the high-profile <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-35\/\">F-35<\/a> Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter program. The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/official-lockheed-martin-f-35-program-enters-full-production-after-23-year-delay\/\">F-35 is now in full-rate production (since March 2024)<\/a>, but there are still plenty of delays and wrinkles in the production of <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-ways-f-35-lightning-ii-totally-wow\/\">the world&#8217;s most popular 5th-generation fighter jet<\/a>. As the aircraft are procured and produced over time, they are modernized (the ones being built now are Block 4).     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delays with the TR-3 upgrade are causing over 100 F-35s to be delayed, along with other production and engine delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,608,748,567,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-delay","category-f-35","category-guides","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54298,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54297\/revisions\/54298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}