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Lockheed Martin Notes High Mission Capable Rates for Forward F-35s, While Training Aircraft Lag

Lockheed Martin Notes High Mission Capable Rates for Forward F-35s, While Training Aircraft Lag
A U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II from Eielson AFB, Alaska, taxis at Kadena Air Base, Japan, before take-off in support of integrated air operations on Feb. 21 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

While the overall mission capable (MC) rate of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 is around 60 percent, forward military detachments have seen MC rates of more than 80 percent, including more than 87 percent in Europe over the past six months, as U.S. and foreign F-35s patrol the theater as part of the NATO response to Russia's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine. Lockheed Martin says that it has delivered more than 825 F-35s thus far, and that number is to…

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