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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 ...
Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II development started in 1995 with the origins of the Joint Strike Fighter program and culminated in the completion of operational testing and start of full-rate production in 2021. [6] The X-35 first flew on 24 October 2000 and the F-35A on 15 December 2006.
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.
The hits keep coming for Lockheed Martin (NYS: LMT) . Maj. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, deputy chief of the Pentagon's F-35 fighter program, unloaded Monday on the company's progress on the jet.
ITT Exelis receives multimillion dollar contract from Lockheed Martin F-35 program SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ITT Exelis (NYS: XLS) has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract from ...
Lockheed has said it expects the production rate for the jets to eventually plateau at about 175 aircraft per year. "While initial discussions indicated 169 aircraft in 2022, we will provide a ...
After a competition between the Boeing X-32 and the Lockheed Martin X-35, the latter aircraft was selected for a contract award and developed into the F-35 Lightning II, which will replace various tactical aircraft, including the US F-16, A-10, F/A-18A-D, AV-8B, EA-6B and British Harrier GR7, GR9s and Tornado GR4.
After 2013, TAI will assemble the F-35 under license from Lockheed Martin Corporation, as was the case with the F-16 program. [citation needed] By January 2011 there were indications that Turkey was reconsidering its participation in the F-35 program and its procurement of the aircraft.