Specific issues are discussed below-much of it in quotations and showing the appropriate page number of the text of the evaluation. While the DOT&E paperwork includes an opening memo and an executive summary, they do not do justice to the detailed findings of the report. While the B and C are even more expensive and lower in performance-on certain key performance dimensions-than the Air Force's A model, this OUE (inadvertently) demonstrates that the A model is also flawed beyond redemption. The Operational Utility Evaluation (OUE) is particularly valuable as it focuses on the Air Force's A model of the F-35 "Joint Strike Fighter." Many in the political and think tank world have focused more on the Marine Corps B, or Short Take Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL), version or the Navy's C model with its heavier structure and larger wings. Not previously in the public domain, the unclassified DOT&E materials are available at the .ĭOT&E's report, titled "F-35A Joint Strike Fighter: Readiness for Training Operational Utility Evaluation," reveals yet more disappointments on the status and performance of the F-35. There, already skilled Air Force pilots are undergoing a basic syllabus of familiarization training with the aircraft.
On Februthe Department of Defense's Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) sent a memorandum and accompanying evaluation report to Congress and the DOD hierarchy describing the performance of the F-35A and its support infrastructure at Eglin Air Force Base (FL).
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