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A flight deck crew member aboard the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier signals to an F-35 jet during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) military exercises about 100 miles south of Oahu, Hawaii, U.S ...
The F-35 was the product of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, which was the merger of various combat aircraft programs from the 1980s and 1990s. One progenitor program was the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Advanced Short Take-Off/Vertical Landing (ASTOVL) which ran from 1983 to 1994; ASTOVL aimed to develop a Harrier jump jet replacement for the U.S. Marine Corps ...
The contract for System Development and Demonstration (SDD) was awarded on 26 October 2001 to Lockheed Martin, [17] whose X-35 beat the Boeing X-32. One of the main reasons for this choice appears to have been the method of achieving STOVL flight, with the Department of Defense judging that the higher performance lift fan system was worth the ...
Lockheed Martin sued an F-35 contractor over a pricing dispute. The contractor says the suit is about profit, not national security.
Among the more interesting contracts awarded, Lockheed Martin won an additional $99 million contract for further work on its F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter. Lockheed's F-35 in flight ...
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of stealth multirole fighters that first entered service with the United States in 2015. The aircraft has been ordered by program partner nations, including the United Kingdom, Italy, Norway, and Australia, and also through the Department of Defense's Foreign Military Sales program, including Japan, South Korea, and Israel.
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYS: LMT) a trio of contracts related to the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet. The combined value of all three ...
In early 2015 the AF-2 F-35A, the primary flight sciences loads and flutter evaluation aircraft, was flown by Lockheed Martin F-35 site lead test pilot David "Doc" Nelson in air-to-air combat maneuvers against F-16s for the first time and, based on the results of these and earlier flight-envelope evaluations, said the aircraft can be cleared ...