Did you actually read the publication?  Let me quote you the money paragraphs



The bolded lines stress the key take away, but both paragraphs are important for context. The report isn't telling us about the actual availability rate of the F-35 but the CBOs guessing at what the availability of the aircraft will be since the fleet is so damn young   Its based of looking at a small sample of the fleet (30%) which 1/3rd of that consists of prototype and developmental aircraft.

Nope never done that before, except for the F9F, F-9, F-11, F-8, F4D, FJ-2/3, (A-4, and A-7 were great single engine attack jets)  I'm probably missing a couple.
My favorite of these is the last gunfighter.
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ETA...  Damn, someone already jumped all over the correction.

Those Crusaders really were pretty.

Too bad they were so fucking dangerous around the carrier. But I suppose these things happen.

Not speaking specifically to Lockheed or any particular aircraft.

Generally.. all the aircraft get designed and then have mods and additions over the years, decades... that add more and more and more and more avionics and electronic gadgets secret tech spy shit, navigation, kitchen sink, etc.. and it gets overloaded.

Then they need to upgrade engines, modify the shit out of the airframe etc.. etc.. etc.. Look at some of these helicopters the mil uses.
Look at the first year productions decades ago and look at the latest version.. they look extremely different and the later version are bulked out.

Dont look now but the planes that can't fly are bombing Iran, outside of their combat radius. Or maybe they can and this was all political theater. IWK

I see this daily.

Fairly easy for psychopaths to climb their way up the corporate ladder. Just say the right things, grease the right palms and perhaps sabotage the occasional rival and the world is yours.



Or not. Psychopaths do have a habit of being somewhat shortsighted.

"Ray Charles could have seen this coming, but somehow modern Western society rewards mediocre jackasses with higher and higher positions both within the private and public sector."

It is not somehow.  Less than mediocre people in higher and higher positions, everywhere in private and public sectors, is not spontaneous, not coincidence.  

Monkeywrenching is a tool the Left uses to destroy things.  The most effective monkeywrench attacks start with removing competent senior management and replacing it with incompetent people or people who will play along with the Left's attack.  These poison-pill replacements may be white or DEI, and male or female.  

It is safe to assume that management at all woke companies or government agencies fall into the poison-pill type.  Rewards can be substantial for being that guy, more so than for being a competent manager.

A big part of the job of a purposely incompetent manager is to remove competent people below them and replace them with incompetents.  DEI and HR are tools used to sabotage the management pyramid below the C-level.

It's not somehow.  It's not Western society.  It is the Left that is doing it with malice of forethought.  

Actions of the Left are forcing civilization to choose between having Leftists in our society and thus ending civilization or removing Leftists and preserving civilization.

Apox onem.  

Gaetz -More than two-thirds of America’s F-35s can’t fly, and Secretary Lloyd Austin wants more of them