There’s also some implied disagreement on how big a deal missing millions of dollars of spare parts truly is. Passing the spare buckThe U.S. government considers itself the owner of F-35 parts right up until the moment they are installed in another country’s aircraft. Jetfighters for subscription feeFor years, the lack of spare parts has caused frequent long delays and heavily impaired operations of F-35s across the globe. As part of the F-35 program’s development and export strategy, production of F-35 parts was distributed across multiple partner states/operators. This was especially notable for the infamously buggy ALIS ground-based logistics software, which was partially implicated in difficulties tracking spare parts.

Source: Forbes June 07, 2023 13:00 UTC