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The draft law for acquiring the F-35 was published by the Romanian Army in August 2024. According to this draft, the F-16s will start to be retired in 2034 and by 2040, Romania will only operate the F-35. [473] The contract for the F-35 purchase is expected to be signed sometime between October 2024 and January 2025. [474]
After a competition between the Boeing X-32 and the Lockheed Martin X-35, the latter aircraft was selected for a contract award and developed into the F-35 Lightning II, which will replace various tactical aircraft, including the US F-16, A-10, F/A-18A-D, AV-8B, EA-6B and British Harrier GR7, GR9s and Tornado GR4.
Lockheed Martin says a subcontractor is withholding F-35 materials, causing a national security threat by delaying deliveries of the military aircraft.
Just hours before the government's "sequester" plan went into effect, the Department of Defense announced Thursday that it has awarded Lockheed Martin a $333.8 million contract related to the F-35 ...
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYS: LMT) a trio of contracts related to the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet. The combined value of all three ...
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 ...
In early 2015 the AF-2 F-35A, the primary flight sciences loads and flutter evaluation aircraft, was flown by Lockheed Martin F-35 site lead test pilot David "Doc" Nelson in air-to-air combat maneuvers against F-16s for the first time and, based on the results of these and earlier flight-envelope evaluations, said the aircraft can be cleared ...
The smaller of the two awards, for $14.6 million, went to a small Lockheed unit called Lockheed Martin Gyrocam Systems LLC. Gyrocam won a task Lockheed Martin Wins Contract for F-35A and F-35B ...