March 28, 2024

F-35 Fire ‘Isolated Incident,’ DoD Says

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Pentagon officials are increasingly confident that a fire that heavily damaged an F-35A joint strike fighter on June 23 was the result of an isolated issue and not a fleet-wide design flaw that will require redesign or replacement of parts, Defense News reports.

Did Pax River’s Facebook administrator suggest that F-35Bs waiting at Pax River to fly to the Farnborough air show actually had clearance to go today, July 15? Intercepts reports that it surely looked that way, citing an exchange between the Facebook administrator and a commenter that has since been removed.

Boeing officials say they can continue production of the F/A-18E/F and EA-18G through 2017 with only 12 of the aircraft suggested by Congress rather than the roughly 24 they previously said were required to keep the St. Louis production line afloat, AviationWeek reports. Chris Chadwick, president of Boeing Defense, Space and Security, said he is studying options to re-phase some of the existing U.S. Navy orders, delaying some deliveries, to allow for those 12 aircraft suggested by Congress for an add in fiscal 2015 to carry the line through 2017.

Su Bin, owner of a Chinese aviation company, is charged with successfully hacking a Boeing system to get information on the defense contractor’s C-17 jet. The military transport has delivered cargo in every worldwide operation since the 1990s. He also allegedly plotted with two unnamed Chinese individuals to burglarize the networks of other U.S. defense contractors, according to a Bloomberg report in NextGov. They wanted data on other aircraft, including Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-22 and F-35 fighter jets.

A day after launching two ballistic missiles from a base near the border with archrival South Korea, Pyongyang on Monday fired a barrage of artillery shells into waters near its eastern sea border with the South, says an Associated Press report published in Navy Times. Officials in Seoul have confirmed nearly 100 missile, rocket, and artillery tests by North Korea this year, an output seen as significantly higher than past years.

Some of the world’s biggest tech companies are asking the FCC to guarantee net neutrality and an open Internet as it considers new rules for regulating internet service providers, In The Capital reports. Internet Association sent an official comment to the FCC laying out its suggestions for what its member companies think the new rules should look like. The IA speaks for a host of the most well-known and powerful companies in the industry including Facebook, Google, Amazon, Netflix and Twitter. The deadline for comments on the current proposal is today, July 15, and the FCC has already received close to three-quarters of a million responses to the current proposal.

 

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