As Safety Measure, F-35 Program Orders Fleet Retrofit to Mitigate 'Harmonic Resonance'

Five F-35A Lightning II aircraft taxi across the flightline on Sept. 23 last year at Luke AFB, Ariz. As of last September, the base had 111 F-35s and 77 F-16s for training (U.S. Air Force Photo)

By Frank Wolfe |
3 months ago |
03/02/2023

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The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) has directed a fleetwide retrofit for Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35As, Bs, and Cs to mitigate any future “harmonic resonance,” which may increase stress on the fighter’s Raytheon Technologies‘ [RTX] F135…

As Safety Measure, F-35 Program Orders Fleet Retrofit to Mitigate ‘Harmonic Resonance’

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