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3 Jets, 1 Trillion Dollars: The Truth Behind the F-35 Program

The F-35 was meant to replace four different aircraft across the US military with a single design. Instead, it spawned three ...
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NATO Displays F-35 Air Power in Exercise Falcon Strike 25

All three of the F-35 Lightning variants are particularly formidable. T he Royal Air Force’s F-35B contingent has taken ...
The Aviationist

First F-35B Transported by CH-53K to MCAS Beaufort to be Retired as Static Display

Airframe BF-01 performed the F-35’s first vertical landing on Mar. 18, 2010, and the first vertical takeoff on May 10, 2013, at NAS Patuxent River. The first F-35B Lightning II STOVL (Short Take-Off ...

The World’s Largest Air Forces By Number Of F-35s

He is a former Naval Flight Officer who performed tactical air control on the carrier-capable Airborne Early Warning (AEW) platform, the E-2 Hawkeye. The United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, ...
The National Interest

F-35B to Take-off and Land on British and Japanese Warships in New War Game

As the product of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, the F-35 platform was conceptualized to fulfill the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s advanced short take-off/vertical landing ...
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How the F-35 became the best it could be

The U.S. has long been recognized for its technological edge in developing battlefield weaponry. The design work for such platforms occurs years before a system ever sees the light of day and, even ...
The Aviationist on MSN

Japan Starts F-35B Training Flights

As deliveries continue, the JASDF has now started training operations with the F-35B Lightning II at Nyutabaru Air Base. The JASDF (Japan Air-Self Defense ...