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750 F-35 Fighter Jets Delivered, Navy to put some of its oldest test models into storage

 The US Navy is looking for contractors to support the storage of three F-35 Joint Strike Fighters and two Model B and C versions

The US Navy is looking for contractors to support the storage of three F-35 Joint Strike Fighters and two Model B and C versions that are no longer required for flight testing. This decision reflects the withdrawal of the F-35 program from the long-term testing phase. Hopefully this year the Pentagon will finally be able to take over official production of the complete aircraft. More than 750 of them have been delivered to customers around the world.

As part of this phase of the SDD program, there are at least 19 different F-35 models built specifically for testing purposes, including a number of unsubstantiated test pieces. Lockheed Martin won its first Systems Development and Design (SDD) contract in 2001 and is technically still under development. In 2018, the program completed experimental flight tests and moved on to operational testing and evaluation.

The NAWCAD contract notice also defines "long term storage" and states that "aircraft will be stored outdoors in sunlight and bad weather for up to five years." It is unclear if current projections mean the plane will be less than five years old and the Navy has no plans for a plane after that. The contract notice mentions possible "future use" of this aircraft.

However, while the F-35 program has made significant progress towards the completion of the SDD phase, there is growing concern about the cost of operating and maintaining these aircraft over the coming decades. A fourth block of major modernization is already in development, but there is still a long way to go before it can be integrated into each aircraft, and it is unclear how much this will increase the overall cost of the program. More importantly, it is based in part on the Air Force's announced plan to purchase a total of 1,763 F-35A aircraft, and the procurement plan for the services is currently being cut.

Meanwhile, the global F-35 family continues to grow. In 2021, Switzerland and Finland will be the last countries to announce their plans to purchase these aircraft. Canada also announced last year that the F-35A and Saab Gripen E were finalists in the fighter race. Nine countries, including the United States, are currently using the F-35 version. The total number of variants and sub-variants is likely to increase with the increase in the number of airlines, as Israel mainly uses different versions of the F-35I Adir and other types are currently being developed for unspecified foreign customers.

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