Including the current estimate that calls for delivering 97 F-35s in 2023-or up to 56 fewer than originally planned at the beginning of the year-Lockheed’s backlogged shipments since 2020 now total up to 86 jets. Lockheed has delivered 403 F-35s over the past three years, but had planned to deliver a maximum of 433. But a late-December F-35 crash during a flight test in 2022 revealed a new engine design flaw, again causing a missed delivery target for 2022 with only 141 aircraft. The COVID-19 pandemic caused the company to fall behind by 21 aircraft deliveries in 2020, but the assembly line bounced back the next year and beat a 133-139 jet delivery target with 142 aircraft. The delay adds to growing pressure on Lockheed’s annual delivery rates. 元Harris and RTX have also fallen behind on deliveries of TR-3 hardware.
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The delays are being caused by scheduling with an ongoing certification process for the software in the Technology Refresh-3 (TR-3) hardware, which includes an 元Harris integrated core processor, an aircraft memory unit and an RTX electro-optical distributed aperture system, Lockheed says in a new regulatory filing.
The company originally planned to deliver 147-153 this year. The latest schedule slip means Lockheed now expects to deliver only 97 F-35s this year, a further reduction from an estimate in July of 100-200. Lockheed Martin has further delayed delivery of the first F-35 upgraded with new avionics, to the second quarter of 2024, adding more jets to a backlog of deferred shipments since 2020, the company announced on Sept.
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