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Friday, May 27, 2011

What's Plan B? - Australia's air combat capability in the balance

F-35 Lightning IIIn this ASPI Policy Analysis author Andrew Davies says Australia’s long-held plans for the future air combat capability in the form of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter are under pressure from rising costs and slipping schedules.

This paper assesses the current situation and concludes that there is still scope for a successful transition later this decade, but that margins are getting tight.

Cost pressures are strongest for the first batch of fourteen aircraft due to arrive from 2014, and must be close to maxing out the approved funding amount.

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