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A U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II in flight. Operations of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II family began in 1995 with the Joint Strike Fighter program.Since its first flight in 2006, the aircraft has faced substantial controversy, shortages in its research and development supply, [1] and safety concerns due to incidents. [2]
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 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.
A Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter jet. Debris from a missing F-35 fighter jet has been located, according to officials at Joint Base Charleston in South Carolina.
The U.S. Air Force grounded hundreds of jets last month because something was off with a key component used to literally hold many Air Force aircraft together.
Chittenden County residents have been raising concerns about noise pollution since the Air National Guard's F-35 jets took to Vermont skies in 2019. The F-35 is loud due to its high thrust-to ...
F-35 jets have caused controversy in Madison for many years. The F-35s arrived at Truax Field on April 25, 2023, to replace the 115th's aging fleet of F-16s, which were built in the late 1980s and ...
The potential sale of F-35 aircraft drew criticism with regards to maintaining Israel's qualitative military edge, a policy enshrined in U.S. law, as well as concerns regarding human rights violations during the Yemeni Civil War and Saudi Arabia's role therein. Additionally, concerns have been raised that procurement of the F-35 could spark a ...