Marine Corps Deputy Commandant for Aviation Lt. Gen. Terry Robling said today he no longer thinks a 2014 fielding is possible for the short-take-off, vertical-landing variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Robling told the Senate Armed Services airland subcommittee on May 25 that the Marines' plans for achieving the initial operational capability for the F-35B would slide “at least two years” to 2014 or 2015. Today, the general said at a breakfast hosted by the Navy League that while...
