숫자로 알아보는 F-35 JSF 의 흥미로운 사실...

 

美 Georgia 州 Atlanta 에서 발행되는 지역 언론에 올라온, 숫자/통계로 알아본 F-35 JSF 개발 제작관련 흥미로운 기사가 있어

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참고로 Lockheed Martin 의 Georgia 州 Marietta 공장은, 1995년 Lockheed 와 합병하기 전의 Martin Marietta 社가 운영하던

곳 입니다.

 

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Marietta's just one stop on fighter's path to flight

Major components of the F-35 are made in five locations. Here they are, followed by the current number of workers:

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 08/08/2010

Author: Dan Chapman

 

The F-35 Lightning II, the military's next-generation jet fighter, will be built by tens of thousands of people who work for 900 suppliers in nine countries and 45 states, including Georgia.The Lockheed Martin factory in Marietta is just one destination on the jet's global production jaunt.

 

But it's part of Lockheed Martin's time-tested strategy to share the manufacturing wealth to garner political support for the $300 billion project, according to defense expert John Pike.

 

Defense contractors "spread the work around in order to maintain congressional support," Pike, director of globalsecurity.org, said last week. "Any congressional district that doesn't have one of these contracts hasn't bothered to pick up the phone. They're not hard to get."

 

Ten workers started building F-35 center wings in Marietta late last month. By 2016, when Lockheed expects to churn out a plane a day, more than 600 men and women could be welding and riveting wings in Cobb County.

 

Not all will be new hires. Roughly 175 employees will switch over from F-22 Raptor production as it winds down. In all, 7,800 people work at the massive factory in Marietta, building F-22s, F-35s and C-130Js and updating other planes.

 

Marietta was the final assembly site for the F-22. The F-35 will be assembled at Lockheed Martin's plant in Fort Worth, Texas. In all, 3,181 planes are scheduled to be built.

 

Customers include the Air Force, Navy and Marines, as well as the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, Canada, Australia, Denmark and Norway.

 

"We're pleased that ... suppliers represent such a large geographic swath of the country, and also are broadly represented within the F-35 partner countries," Lockheed spokesman John Kent said.

 

Work on warplane worldwide

 

Where it's built;

 Forward fuselage: Lockheed Martin plant, Fort Worth, Texas, 53 workers

 Wing assembly: Lockheed Martin plants, Fort Worth and Marietta, Ga., 441 workers 

 Center fuselage: Northrop Grumman plant, Palmdale, Calif., 270 workers

 Rear fuselage and tail: British Aerospace plant, Samlesbury, England, 200 workers 

 Final assembly: Lockheed Martin plant, Fort Worth, 345 workers

 

 Note: Worker numbers based on current production rate of 1 aircraft per month.

 That is projected to ramp up to 1 per day by 2016, with a corresponding rise in employment.

 

Other numbers;

 900 number of suppliers are located in 45 states

 127,000 number of people the program directly or indirectly employs in the United States (thousands more in other nations)

 4 billion amount of money partner nations have invested

 8 number of partner nations (United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, Canada, Australia, Denmark and Norway)

 

 

  ⓒ Lockheed Martin