No, its not twisting. Its a simple fact.
The F-35 is plagued my thousands of quality issues. Its main gun has enormous flaws and bends. The aircrafts coat boils off when she goes above 1200 km/h. The aircraft starts to desintegrate when it flys over 1200 km/h longer than 10 minutes. The aircraft needs to stand in climatized hangars and even the helmet needs its own engineers.
So far Lockheed was not able to correct those issues.
I make it plain and simple for you. Greece gets hot in the summer days and we have to cover quite a large area of airspace. The aircraft must be flightready in extreme short time spans. The aircraft must operate under corrosive environment, since there is salt in the air.
In short, the F-35 doesnt work for Greece.
The US Airforce calls the F-35 a failure:
The Air Force has finally admitted that the F-35 is not the aircraft the military hoped it would be, though we doubt Ferrari would appreciate being compared with the F-35.
www.extremetech.com
The Air Force has announced a new study into the tactical aviation requirements of future aircraft, dubbed TacAir. In the process of doing so, Air Force chief of staff General Charles Q. Brown finally admitted what’s been obvious for years: The F-35 program has failed to achieve its goals. There is, at this point, little reason to believe it will ever succeed.
According to Brown, the USAF doesn’t just need the NGAD (Next Generation Air Dominance) fighter, a sixth-generation aircraft — it also needs a new, “5th-generation minus / 4.5th-generation aircraft.” Brown acknowledged some recent issues with the F-35 and suggested one potential solution was to fly the plane less often.
In short, the F-35 is not worth a single €. It cant protect Greece. It cant act as defensive aircraft. It has a myriad of flaws and bad production quality.
o say the F-35 has failed to deliver on its goals would be an understatement. Its mission capable rate is
69 percent, below the 80 percent benchmark set by the military. 36 percent of the F-35 fleet is available for any required mission, well below the required 50 percent standard. Current and ongoing problems include faster than expected engine wear, transparency delamination of the cockpit, and unspecified problems with the F-35’s power module.