Broken F-35 Parts Take Six Months To Fix, GAO Finds

Credit: USAF
If a part on one of the U.S. military’s growing fleet of 250 F-35s fails, it takes about six months for the depots to repair it—twice the program’s objective, a key government watchdog has found. The Pentagon does not have enough capacity to repair F-35 parts in a timely manner because the...

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