Dr. Aaron Lerner — Take note of this important line in the item:

“Of course, some elements we may need to send to another place to fix. But in most cases, we should we able to replace them from what’s on the shelf …The important thing is that we will not send aircraft out of the country.”

Here’s the truth:

1. There are large key components of the F-35 that WE CANNOT TOUCH. We can only pull them out of the jet and replace with the spare on the shelf.
2. We are going to have very few of these spare large key components.
3. The SLIGHTEST problem in such a component that under normal circumstances might be addressed in a few minutes by an Israeli tech (replace a washer, filets, etc.) mmeans getting thatmuch closer to exhausting the stock of spare components.
4. If and when the day comes that someone in the White House wants to limit our ability to continue an operation it would be child’s play for supply delays to slash the number of combat ready jets.
5. In fact — even without malice, this set up can easily lead to a situation that most of the jets are out of service during the course of a majorconflict that drains our resources.

By: Barbara Opall-Rome, December 11, 2016

TEL AVIV – Nearly a decade of planning preceded Monday’s scheduled delivery of the first F-35Is to the Israel Air Force (IAF), but once they touch down at the stealth fighter’s desert base at Nevatim, another process will just begin, with vast implications on how Israel wields airpower near and very far from home.

From the single network that will support the IAF’s ability to use the fifth-generation Adir (Awesome/Magnificent) alongside fourth-generation fighters to hunt and fight in packs to the means by which it trains and maintains its combined force, the new F-35Is will be driving wholesale changes throughout the mightiest air force in the Middle East.

“The IAF needs to adapt itself to this fifth-generation plane, and not vice versa,” a general officer on the IAF Air Staff told Defense News.

“We need to look at all our existing concepts and to re-evaluate them as a result of this capability. We’ll ask questions we never asked before, because we’ve been used to training, operating and supporting according to fourth-generation concepts.”

From “Day 1” of the Adir’s arrival, the general officer said the new fighters will be co-located with an F-16I “escorting squadron” to allow the service to determine all it needs for seamless integration of its frontline fighter force.

“We need this quality team from Day 1 to live together, train together and learn all they need to speak the same language,” the officer said.

“We’ve defined the team’s mission as escorting the Adir and leading the way
to joining fourth- and fifth-generation elements of our force,” he said.

“Of course, this F-16I squadron will have other missions. It’s not a
dedicated team in the purest sense, since we don’t have the luxury of a
stand-alone squadron. But their mission is clear: As smartly …read more

Source:: Israpundit

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