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A F-35 jet lands on the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) military exercises about 100 miles south of Oahu, Hawaii, U.S. July 19, 2024.
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]
Howmet’s website, too, boasts about the company’s involvement in the F-35 program, saying that “Lockheed Martin turned to Howmet Aerospace for many of (the F-35’s) critical parts.”
He claimed that the F-35 is a poor replacement for the A-10 in the close air support (CAS) role, alleging it flies too fast for pilots to spot targets by eye and lacks maneuverability at low speeds, [17] lacks the necessary radios, [18] cannot survive small arms fire (or anti-aircraft guns), and has poor loiter time. [19]
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 ...
Lockheed Martin forecast 2025 profit that missed Wall Street expectations on Tuesday, as the defense giant grapples with delayed rollouts of a tech upgrade on the F-35, underscoring a cautious ...
Norway and the F-35. Norway, which received its first F-35s in 2017, ... and main landing gear closeout panels for three versions of the F-35, totaling over 300 aircraft.
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.