The program has already completed over 20,000 tests, but has 39,579 more such tests. It said Lockheed did not accomplish all the tests planned for 2012, but boosted the year’s total of specific tests by bringing forward some evaluations planned in later years. The program exceeded the number of flight tests and specific system tests planned for 2012 but lagged in some areas due to unresolved problems and newly discovered issues, the report said. The 18-page report, sent to Congress on Friday, included a detailed account of those issues and others, which it said underscored the “lack of maturity” of the $396 billion weapons program, the Pentagon’s most expensive ever.
REUTERS/Andy Wolfe/Lockheed Martin/Handout A Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft has dropped its first bomb in a new test stage of the Pentagon's costliest weapons purchase, officials said August 9, 2012. GBU-32 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) separation weapon over water in an Atlantic test range in Patuxent River, Maryland August 8, 2012.
BF-3, a short take-off and vertical landing F-35 Lightning II, releases an inert 1,000 lb.
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