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美軍F-35專案聯合辦公室努力就每飛行小時成本與洛•馬公司達成一致
2013-01-16
[據《飛行國際》2013年1月12日報導]美國空軍和五角大樓的聯合專案辦公室正就F-35每飛行小時成本與洛•馬公司努力達成一致。
“讓項目辦公室以及洛•馬公司共同商討軍方估算資料與製造商提供資料所存在的差值問題” 美國空軍新參謀長Mark Welsh將軍表示。“通過雙方合作，能夠知道每個花費項目以及金額，能夠知道將要花費多少錢，當然此前這些都是不清楚的。”
雖然目前尚沒有相關的確切數字，但美國空軍在該問題上進展良好。“我們將要完全清楚的知道按空軍要求定義的每飛行小時成本。這個數字將與海軍陸戰隊及海軍的有一點出入，當然我們也會嘗試解決上述問題”。
Welsh補充，該專案也開始在Eglin空軍基地搜集F-35的實際運行維護成本資料，有助於尋找平衡點。這將有助於維持更大的機隊。
美國空軍司令Michael Donley表示仿真技術可以有效降低F-35飛行員的飛行小時，有助於減少開支。F-35模擬器是當前最為精密的模擬器，它提供了一個機會去尋找實際飛行時間與SIM卡訓練時間的劃分點。（中國航空工業發展研究中心 曆博）
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/usaf-tackles-f-35-sustainment-cost-estimates-380967/
USAF tackles F-35 sustainment cost estimates
PrintBy: Dave Majumdar Washington DC 12:17 12 Jan 2013 Source:
The US Air Force and the Pentagon's Joint Program Office are working to bridge the gap between their estimates of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's cost per flight hour and those of the manufacturer.
"I asked our acquisition workforce and our program office to get with the Lockheed Martin team and put these numbers side by side and figure out exactly what the differences were between the number we had thought and the number they had, to try and get at that problem," says Gen Mark Welsh, the USAF's new chief of staff.
"I think the folks in the programme office and the folks at Lockheed Martin are getting to a point where they understand exactly what the numbers are," Welsh says. "What number we're going to use, I don't know yet."
Welsh, though he did not have numbers on hand, says that the USAF is makes good progress. "We're getting to a point where we have a pretty good understanding of the cost per flying hour as we will define it in the air force," he says. "The numbers are going to be a little bit different for the Marines and the navy, and we're trying to kind of resolve all that, too, so we're comparing apples to apples."
Welsh adds that the service has also started to gather real world data on F-35 sustainment costs from training operations at Eglin AFB, Florida. "We are now getting actual data that we can track and add into this equation, which will be very helpful for us, I think," he says. "And that will get more and more definitive as we fly more and more aircraft."
US Air Force Secretary Michael Donley adds the simulation technology might be able to reduce the number of flight hours needed by F-35 pilots, which could further decrease costs. "The F-35 simulator is the most sophisticated simulator that we have in the fighter world now," he says. "So it provides a great opportunity to look more carefully at how we divide actual flying hours from sim time. In some other areas this can be more challenging if the simulators have not kept up or the ranges have not kept up with modern technologies. In this case, we have a very modern simulator so there is some advantages we'll need to take advantage of there."
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