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Enlarge / An F-35B Lightning II aircraft piloted by Maj. Jesse Peppers taxis toward the runway aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, April 11. Keeping the F-35B flying, just as with the Air Force and Navy’s F-35 fighters, is shaping up to be a waiting game because of a slow channel for repair parts. (credit: […]
Flickr/Lockheed Martin Japan plans to buy at least 20 additional F-35A stealth fighters over the next six years, sources say. Japan will pay about $ 100 million per plane, and will get over 60 of the jets in total. Japanese military planners are also considering buying F-35Bs, the vertical takeoff and landing model which they could […]
Photo by Lockheed Martin, Courtesy of the US Air Force Japan will buy a new missile with a range of over 600 miles, meaning it can strike North Korea. Japan officially renounced the right to wage war after World War II, but its current government has dialed that back in light of North Korea’s provocations. […]
Published time: 25 Nov, 2017 11:49 Norway’s new F-35 fighter jets boast an impressive array of high-tech gadgetry, but Norwegian defense officials were surprised to learn of one unadvertised feature: the pricey plane relays sensitive data back to its US manufacturer, Lockheed Martin. The Royal Norwegian Air Force recently received the first three of the […]
Published time: 26 Oct, 2017 13:20 F-35 fighter jet pilots at the Luke Air Force Base in Arizona continue to experience unexplained symptoms of hypoxia, or oxygen deprivation, months after the world’s most expensive weapons system was grounded with similar issues. Five incidents of pilots suffering from hypoxia-like symptoms were reported at Luke in May […]
Lockheed Martin The US Navy’s USS Wasp helicopter carrier will replace the USS Bonhomme Richard in the 7th Fleet’s forward-deployed base at Sasebo, Japan, thereby giving the US an F-35 compatible aircraft carrier right at North Korea and China’s doorstep. The Wasp, one of the smaller-deck carriers the US Marine Corps’ F-35B trained and tested on, […]
The US military’s potentially trillion dollar F-35 program has reliability problems that could hobble fleet readiness and balloon its cost even further, according to a Department of Defense testing office assessment seen by Bloomberg News. The assessment states that the supply chain for spare parts hasn’t kept up with demand, and that the parts have proven less reliable […]
F-35A operations at the Luke Air Force Base in Arizona were temporarily suspended after a series of incidents in which pilots reported symptoms of oxygen deprivation. A similar problem had grounded Navy training flights in April. The temporary halt called on Friday followed five separate in-flight incidents at the 56th Fighter Wing since May 2, […]
Published time: 5 Jun, 2017 20:06 Though President Donald Trump’s budget proposal raises military spending, the US Air Force wants more still. USAF has asked Congress for nearly $ 11 billion in additional funds for F-35 fighter jets, tankers, laser weapons and to modernize older planes. The Air Force’s wish list includes $ 1.76 billion […]
Courtesy of Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson said that President Donald Trump “absolutely” made a difference in the savings and timelines for production of the fifth-generation fighter jet, the F-35 Lightning II. “He helped accelerate that along, and I think he put a sharper focus on price and how we drive the price down,” Hewson […]
