Hey, welcome to the lowdown. We're breakdown to everything aviation and defense. Today we're going to run through the lowdown newsletter for everything that's happened in the past week when it comes to aviation defense. So strap in and let's get rolling. Today we got the F-35, which is going to see some downgrades with block four. The new doomsday plane, the E4C, which is rolling out or being upgraded as well as we're going to talk about

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All right, so first, over on the flight line, the F-35 block four has faced significant delays.

And it's going to take a little bit of a haircut when it comes to capabilities.

Now I have a video that's in the queue to come out that's a little bit deeper dive on that

35 block 4, TR3, what all this means and what's coming down the pipeline. So again, if you're

not a subscriber to the channel, make sure you click that and click the bell so you get

notified. But a GAO report the

government accountability office came out with a report talk about how over budget that

35 is I guess shocker right but specifically when it comes to block four which is the

ultimate F35 upgrade where it gets the full beast mode all the capabilities that's

looking at 2031 now for that

to be rolling out. It was supposed to be 2026. Now if we back up TR3, technology refresh three,

it's going to lay that foundation for Block 4. It had significant delays, which we've talked about

on this channel and in the newsletter. And so if you've been around, you're probably aware,

if not,

but TR3 was a lot of computer processing power, a lot of upgrades internally to allow Block 4 to

roll in, which is more sensor fusion, more weapons capability, enhanced processing, and capability

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