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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]
F-35 stealth fighter jets have been failing to meet mission-capable rates, a watchdog reports. This has been the case for six years despite over $12 billion on operations and maintenance, the GAO ...
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is the Pentagon's most expensive weapons system program, with lifetime costs expected to top $2 trillion. Musk has previously suggested the F-35, troubled by setbacks ...
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 ...
A series of NATO air policing missions around Estonia has seen F-35 and Rafale jets called into action. French Rafale jets intercepted a Russian IL-18 aircraft off Estonia's coast on Friday.
Pierre Michel Sprey (November 22, 1937 – August 5, 2021) was an American defense analyst. Working with John Boyd and Thomas P. Christie at the Pentagon, he was associated with the self-dubbed 'Fighter Mafia', which advocated the use of energy–maneuverability theory in fighter jet design.
Maintenance on components for the F-35 fighter jets is behind, leaving more than 10,000 components currently in the queue waiting to be repaired, according to the report.. The F-35 is used by the ...
Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed. Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria.