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An F-35 Lightning II test aircraft with the Canadian flag, along with those of other industrial participants, painted on it. Alan S. Williams of Queen's University, the former Assistant Deputy Minister of National Defence (Matériel) who signed the original industrial participation agreement, indicated he believes that the Government of Canada's rationale for joining the JSF project was not ...
One of the manufacturers in contention, Boeing, BAE Systems or Saab Aerospace—the name was not disclosed—had promised to assemble the entire aircraft in Canada. [51] Boeing said that it was contemplating closing the F/A-18 production line due to lack of orders. [52] In July 2010, Canada announced that the F-35 would replace the CF-18.
The first operational USAF F-35 on its delivery flight to Eglin Air Force Base in July 2011. Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II procurement is the planned selection and purchase of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, also known as the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) by various countries.
The JSF program was the result of the merger of the Common Affordable Lightweight Fighter (CALF) and Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) projects. [4] [5] The merged project continued under the JAST name until the engineering, manufacturing and development (EMD) phase, during which the project became the Joint Strike Fighter.
A series of NATO air policing missions around Estonia has seen F-35 and Rafale jets called into action. French Rafale jets intercepted a Russian IL-18 aircraft off Estonia's coast on Friday.
On 28 March 2022, the Government of Canada announced that the competition had placed the F-35A first and planned to buy 88 of them. Under procurement rules, the government entered into negotiations with Lockheed Martin. [35] On 9 January 2023, the government of Canada officially ordered 88 F-35As. [36] [37]
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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 ...