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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]
South Korea started considering the F-35 in 2009, among several other competitors, for its F-X Phase III fighter program. [ 383 ] [ 384 ] South Korean officials had indicated that the F-35 would only be available for delivery after 2018, but Steve O'Bryan, Lockheed's vice president for F-35 business development, said at that time that Lockheed ...
Defense industry insiders and investors have closely watched Lockheed-Martin's F-35 fighter program for years now. Optimism around the craft's stealth and abilities has given way to concerns over ...
South Korea's acquisition of American F-35 stealth fighter jets will force North Korea to develop and test "special armaments" to destroy the new weapons, North Korea's state media said on ...
Lockheed Martin announced today its F-35 Lightning II aircraft has been selected by the Republic of Korea for its F-X fighter acquisition program. As a result of the agreement being a Foreign ...
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 ROKAF concentrated on the qualitative expansion of aircraft to catch up to the strength of the North Korean Air Force. In 1982, Korean variants of the F-5E, the Jegong-ho were first produced. The ROKAF gathered a good deal of information on the North Korean Air Force when Captain Lee Woong-Pyeong, a North Korean pilot, defected to South Korea.
Photos and video have surfaced of an F-35C stealth fighter that crash-landed in the South China Sea on Monday. The F-35 was approaching the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier, but it came in too ...