{"id":3422,"date":"2018-06-17T18:38:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T18:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/britains-new-f-35s-arrive-in-uk-as-us-gov-auditor-sounds-reliability-warning-klaxon\/"},"modified":"2018-06-17T18:38:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T18:38:43","slug":"britains-new-f-35s-arrive-in-uk-as-us-gov-auditor-sounds-reliability-warning-klaxon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/britains-new-f-35s-arrive-in-uk-as-us-gov-auditor-sounds-reliability-warning-klaxon\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s new F-35s arrive in UK as US.gov auditor sounds reliability warning klaxon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s first permanently based F-35B fighter jets have arrived at RAF Marham in Norfolk \u2013 as a US auditor warns that the aircraft won&#8217;t be deemed &#8220;mature&#8221; until the year 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Four of the brand new supersonic stealth aircraft arrived at RAF Marham in Norfolk yesterday evening, having crossed the Atlantic nearly nine hours after taking off from US Marine Corps airfield Beaufort in South Carolina, USA.<\/p>\n<div class=\"CaptionedImage Center Border\" readability=\"9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2018\/06\/07\/f35b_uk_landing_raf_marham.jpg\" alt=\"One of the UK's new F-35Bs touches down at RAF Marham after its transatlantic flight. Pic: Crown copyright\/MoD\" title=\"One of the UK's new F-35Bs touches down at RAF Marham after its transatlantic flight. Pic: Crown copyright\/MoD\" height=\"429\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_center\">One of the UK&#8217;s new F-35Bs touches down at RAF Marham after its transatlantic flight. Note the open lift fan door: the aircraft uses the vertical lift fan during conventional landings as well. Pic: Crown copyright\/MoD<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Lightnings, as the F-35B will be known in British service, were accompanied on their flight by three RAF Airbus A330 tankers \u2013 one at the US end, with two more near the eastern North Atlantic \u2013 and an A400M Atlas transport aeroplane providing air-sea rescue cover.<\/p>\n<p>Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson said in a statement: \u201cWith a game-changing ability to collect crucial intelligence, fight wars and tackle terrorism, these are the most advanced jets in British history.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"CaptionedImage Center Border\" readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2018\/06\/07\/uk_f35bs_with_voyager_tanker.jpg\" alt=\"The first F-35Bs to be based in the UK pictured with an A330M Voyager. Pic: Crown copyright\/MoD\" title=\"The first F-35Bs to be based in the UK pictured with an A330M Voyager. Pic: Crown copyright\/MoD\" height=\"429\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_center\">The first F-35Bs to be based in the UK pictured with an A330M Voyager. Pic: Crown copyright\/MoD<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier, the RAF&#8217;s Chief of the Air Staff, chipped in: &#8220;If you can\u2019t see us coming, you won\u2019t be able to stop us, so with its stealth and other world-beating technologies the F35 Lightning takes the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy to a whole a new level of capability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Admiral Sir Philip Jones, the First Sea Lord (head of the Royal Navy), added that the F-35Bs are intended to be flown from the UK&#8217;s two new aircraft carriers to project British power abroad, saying: &#8220;Once combined with our new aircraft carriers, HMS <em>Queen Elizabeth<\/em> and her sister ship HMS <em>Prince of Wales<\/em>, these extraordinary jets will sit at the heart of our country\u2019s globally deployable expeditionary forces and provide the potent conventional deterrent we need to ensure our national security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"CaptionedImage Center Border\" readability=\"8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2018\/06\/07\/f35bs_raf_marham_flight_line.jpg\" alt=\"The first four F-35Bs to arrive in the UK pictured on the flight line at RAF Marham. Pic: Crown copyright\/MoD\" title=\"The first four F-35Bs to arrive in the UK pictured on the flight line at RAF Marham. Pic: Crown copyright\/MoD\" height=\"429\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_center\">The first four F-35Bs to arrive in the UK pictured on the flight line at RAF Marham. Pic: Crown copyright\/MoD<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The F-35Bs are capable of landing vertically but yesterday they used the full runway like other conventional aeroplanes.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"crosshead\"><span>They\u2019re reliable \u2013 but they\u2019re not yet reliable enough<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The US Government Accountability Office issued a report earlier this week warning that the F-35B is still well behind its designed reliability targets and will only be fully signed off in 2021 \u2013 the same year the UK will deploy them for the first time, alongside the USMC.<\/p>\n<p>That <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/690\/687982.pdf\">report (PDF)<\/a>, while revealing encouraging signs of progress, also disclosed some problems.<\/p>\n<p>The American government measures F-35 development progress with eight key reliability and maintainability measures. Of these eight, the F-35B \u2013 the short takeoff variant of which the UK is buying up to 138 \u2013 was &#8220;near or above current targets&#8221; for just one measure.<\/p>\n<p>On the remaining seven measures \u2013 which included targets for mean flight hours between maintenance event, mean flight hours between critical failure and mean corrective maintenance time for critical failures \u2013 the F-35B was below the target. On three measures it was deemed to be &#8220;near or above minimum targets&#8221;, which appears to be a useful way of classifying a near-miss.<\/p>\n<p>Mean time between failure is a standard engineering measure of reliability. Though the GAO did not reveal the precise target, or by how far the aircraft had missed it, that the F-35B cannot meet the standard is concerning. Of even more concern is the revelation that there was &#8220;little improvement in reliability and maintainability over the past year&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"CaptionedImage Border width_85\" readability=\"7\"><a href=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2018\/06\/07\/raf_f35b_taxying.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2018\/06\/07\/raf_f35b_taxying.jpg\" alt=\"An RAF F-35B taxies in from its transatlantic delivery flight. Pic: Crown copyright\/MoD\" title=\"An RAF F-35B taxies in from its transatlantic delivery flight. Pic: Crown copyright\/MoD\" height=\"429\" width=\"648\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_center\">An RAF F-35B taxies in from its transatlantic delivery flight. Pic: Crown copyright\/MoD<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Aircraft maturity is also an area of concern, in the GAO&#8217;s eyes. Expressed as a number of flight hours across the whole fleet, in plain English &#8220;maturity&#8221; means how long the design has been operated for and therefore how much knowledge has been built up about its maintenance requirements. An immature design, as the GAO pointed out in October last year, means one where &#8220;sustainment costs and technical characteristics such as reliability and maintainability&#8221; are not fully known, meaning they cannot be predicted or fully scrutinised.<\/p>\n<p>The auditor warned that the F-35B and F-35C (which the UK is not buying) are &#8220;less mature and will need to fly approximately 46,000 and 38,000 hours, by 2021 and 2024, respectively, to reach maturity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>An MoD spokesman told <em>The Register<\/em>: &#8220;The F-35 programme remains on track, on time, within costs and offers cutting-edge capability to help our Armed Forces keep us safe. This report highlights areas for improvement that the US Joint Programme Office has assured us that they are already working on. We continue to work closely together to deliver and support this world-leading fighter jet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s contract for buying the F-35Bs is placed with the US F-35 Joint Programme Office, which is an American military agency. The ministry also pointed out that the JPO has &#8220;demonstrated a 25 per cent reduction in aircraft flyaway costs since 2012&#8221; and praised the &#8220;transparency of the programme&#8221; thanks to reports such as the GAO&#8217;s. \u00ae<\/p>\n<p class=\"wptl btm\"><span>Sponsored:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.co.uk\/tl\/1759\/shttp:\/\/www.mcubed.london\/\">Minds Mastering Machines &#8211; Call for papers now open<\/a><\/p>\n<p>READ MORE <a href=\"http:\/\/go.theregister.com\/feed\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/06\/07\/f_35s_arrive_raf_marham_us_gao_reliability_report\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 maturity deadline gets GAO hot under the collar Britain&#8217;s first permanently based F-35B fighter jets have arrived at RAF Marham in Norfolk \u2013 as a US auditor warns that the aircraft won&#8217;t be deemed &#8220;mature&#8221; until the year 2021.\u2026 READ MORE 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