Military Infotainment

Video credit:  Out Of Your Mind The U.S. Air Force is down dozens of fliable F35s due to a maintenance and spare parts crunch. An official in charge says nearly one in seven of the Air Force’s F35s can’t fly at all, with some planes awaiting engines that need to be refurbished sooner than anticipated. For starters, COVID 19 has slowed down the international supply chain, on which the global F35 program relies heavily for everything from parts fabrication to shipping. The F35’s engine also needs more time in maintenance than originally anticipated. The engines are developing heat-related cracks in the fan blades, resulting in the blades being changed out sooner. Lockheed Martin have had to find alternate sources for the parts, and they expect to straighten out the problem by 2022. But if they don’t, some experts think the Air Force could see 20 percent of its F35 fleet grounded by 2025

Video credit: Out Of Your Mind Militaries have huge research and development funds and always working on upgrading and updating their weapons.  A 6th Generation fighter is a conceptualized class of jet fighter aircraft design more advanced than the fifth-generation jet fighters that are currently in service and development. Several countries have announced the development of a sixth-generation aircraft program, including China, Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Russia and India.