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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.
It was the first F-35 built at full production speed, and is structurally identical to the production F-35As that were delivered starting in 2010. [27] On 5 January 2009, six F-35s had been built, including AF-1; another 13 pre-production test aircraft and four production aircraft were being manufactured. [ 28 ]
The first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter rolled off the factory floor in 2006, and since then, more than 1,110 of these fighter jets have been delivered to the US and its allies.
A Fort Worth judge says the F-35 contractor likely violated its Lockheed contract, but not in a way that threatens national security.
Lockheed Martin says a subcontractor is withholding F-35 materials, causing a national security threat by delaying deliveries of the military aircraft.
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 ...
According to the Jerusalem Post, IAF officers said on 31 July 2011 that they did not anticipate that the delivery date for the F-35 would slip beyond 2017. If it did, the IAF would have needed to consider other options for that time period, such as additional F-15s to fill the gap that would be created in the event that the JSF program is ...
Delivery delays with the F-35 aircraft resulted in a $400 million sales headwind in the quarter, but the company expects to make up at least some of that miss in the quarters to come.