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Paris Air Show 2015: Lockheed Martin prepares for F-35 ramp-up to drive down costs

Lockheed Martin has begun preparing for a significant ramp-up in production of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) as it looks to realise its goal of a USD85 million per unit price-tag for the aircraft in the 2019 timeframe, a senior official reported on 15 June.

Briefing during the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, Lorraine Martin, executive vice-president and general manager of the F-35 programme, said that infrastructure improvements to the primary manufacturing site at Fort Worth, Texas, coupled with the opening of a line in Cameri in Italy, and ongoing preparations for a line in Japan, should see the programme on its way to achieving its full-rate production goal of 17 aircraft a month by the mid-2020s. This, in turn, will provide the economies of scale needed to get the F-35 down to USD85 million from the current approximately USD120 million.....

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U.S. Marines One Test From Putting F-35 Combat Jet into Active Service

LE BOURGET, France—The U.S. Marine Corps will put the Lockheed Martin Corp. F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program through one more major test before it is ready to declare the combat jet ready for war, the service’s Deputy Commandant for Aviation Lt. Gen. Jon Davis said.

The initial Marine Corps unit would have 10 F-35 jets upgraded to the latest software and hardware modifications. If all goes well, the Marines would be the first military unit to consider the combat jet operationally ready. “It looks like it is all coming into place,” Lt. Gen. Davis said in an interview at the Paris Air Show.....