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Joint Strike Fighter: Jet that's a 'spy in the sky' Pilot's guide to the Joint Strike Fighter As the most expensive defence project ever undertaken starts to come to fruition, the BBC has been given exclusive access to the world's most advanced fighter jet, the Joint Strike Fighter or F-35...

Ninth F-35 joins flight test fleet Nine of the original 14 F-35 flight test aircraft have flown after the debut on 6 July of the fourth conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) variant known as AF-3. The 42-min sortie began at 18:20, local time, outside Lockheed Martin's final assembly plant in...

Lockheed marks 1st supersonic flight by STOVL F-35B Four months after completing the first vertical landing, the Lockheed Martin F-35B flight test fleet also has surpassed the sound barrier. A 10 June test flight flown by US Marine Corps Lt Col Matt Kelly powered the BF-2...

F-35 vulnerable to anti-aircraft fire The jet that's supposed to make up more than 90 percent of America's combat aviation fleet may have become a lot easier to shoot down. Lockheed Martin, makers of the Joint Strike Fighter, has been under huge pressure to stabilize the jet's skyrocketing...

Lockheed Sketches a Few F-35B Problems Lockheed Martin has clarified reports by a senior Pentagon official June 1 that the Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing version of the F-35 Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter continues to encounter difficulties in flight testing. While the Bethesda...

Pentagon: Total F-35 Price Tag Could Reach $382 Billion Senior Pentagon officials on June 1 announced the F-35 fighter and five other major weapon systems have surpassed a legal cost threshold, while also criticizing the review process that triggers the "Nunn-McCurdy breaches." The Defense...

Israeli industry reveals JSF weapons work Israeli defence companies are developing new weapon systems that will be carried by the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters operated by the nation's air force. Rafael confirms that it is developing smaller versions of its Python-5 short-range...

New Stealth Concept Could Affect JSF Cost FORT WORTH -- As the debate rages about Joint Strike Fighter life-cycle cost, Lockheed Martin officials are raising a previously unheard point to bolster their low-price claims -- a new low-observability (LO) substance called fiber mat. Lockheed...

Lockheed Martin receives AIAA award for F-35 programme Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II aircraft. Lockheed Martin Photo. TEXAS : The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has presented the AIAA Foundation award to Lockheed Martin for its "cutting-edge design and...

Carter: No Case for 2nd JSF Engine Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter said affordability is key to the success of the Joint Strike Fighter program. "There is not a good analytical case that the upfront costs of the second engine would be paid back," Ashton Carter told an audience May 4...

Joint F-35 electronic warfare squadron stands up 4/30/2010 - EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- The squadron serving as the sole Department of Defense provider of electronic warfare support for the F-35 joint strike fighter activated April 23 in a ceremony here. Surrounded by artifacts from the...

GE, Rolls Again Pitch Fixed-Price Deal For Alternative JSF Engine General Electric and Rolls-Royce have once again pitched the Pentagon on a fixed price contract for roughly 150 of their F136 engines, a move designed to save the Pentagon $1 billion in the next five years. The proposal, GE...

F-35A Will Test Weapons The seventh Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II flight test aircraft took to the skies for the first time today, with the overall objective of validating the F-35A conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) variant's weapons suite. The jet, known as AF-2 and piloted by...

History in the making: First JSF training squadron stands up A small squadron of Marines marched toward the future of military aviation, April 2. Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501, currently only 37-Marines strong, stood up as the Marine Corps' F-35B Lightning II training squadron in...

US lawmakers push for back-up plans after F-35 cost increases As cost estimates for the Lockheed Martin F-35 continue rising, some US lawmakers are pushing military officials to increase spending on fourth-generation fighters as a back-up. Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut says he...

Lockheed's 'Mission Systems F-35' enters flight test Lockheed Martin has started the flight test of its first mission systems equipped F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters. The test performed a series of flight-qualities maneuvers and checked the operation of the aircraft’s mission systems...

DoD Begins New F-35 Cost Estimate he Pentagon has officially kicked off another independent cost estimate for the embattled F-35 Joint Strike Fighter after formally notifying Congress that the program has breached the Nunn-McCurdy statute in the wake of cost estimates that price the jet at up...

U.S. Marines Remain Committed To JSF Program, For Now The future of U.S. Marines on aircraft carriers may hinge on the F-35 program. The Marine Corps, which is the only U.S. service that has not announced a significant delay for the Joint Strike Fighter, remains fully committed to the F-35B...

Flawless’ vertical landing by F-35 signals possible tipping point Flawless’ vertical landing by F-35 signals possible tipping point Lockheed Martin still has much to prove, but two days of flight tests on 17-18 March did more than offer a short burst of relief for the F-35 programme's...

Australia Unruffled By F-35 Delays SYDNEY - Australia's minister for defense, Sen. John Faulkner, is unruffled by the latest cost and schedule difficulties afflicting the Joint Strike Fighter program. And senior defense officials in Canberra say they believe that Australia's plans to acquire up...