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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.
Shocking video captured an F-35 fighter jet plummeting onto the runway and bursting into flames during a training exercise at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska early Tuesday afternoon. The...
Eielson projects to have 54 Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II combat aircraft assigned to the installation, of which the first two aircraft arrived on 21 April 2020. The last of the aircraft arrived in April 2022. [7] [8] The planes come with an estimated 3,500 personnel, to include airmen and their families as well as civilian personnel. [9]
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 ...
Norway has estimated that each of their planned 52 F-35 fighter jets will cost their country $769 million over their operational lifetime. [3] The nine major partner nations, including the U.S., plan to acquire over 3,100 F-35s through 2035, [4] which, if delivered will make the F-35 one of the most numerous jet fighters.
On Tuesday, Jan. 28, the Eielson Air Force Base shared in a press release that a F-35 Lightning II jet crashed within the fence line of the base earlier that day at 12:49 p.m. local time.
It is assigned to the 354th Fighter Wing, being stationed at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. It was reactivated in 2019 to operate the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II . The squadron was first activated during World War II and flew the North American P-51 Mustang on escort missions for Eighth Air Force bombers over western Europe from mid-1943.
Each aircraft costs about $100 million. Last year, a Marine Corps investigation into an F-35 fighter jet that went missing in 2023 had flown for 11 minutes after the pilot ejected before it crashed.