Fire Breaks Out on F-35 at Eglin Air Force Base, Pilot Safe
This post was updated to include a statement from Lockheed Martin. A Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter was severely…
Can China’s New Destroyer Find U.S. Stealth Fighters?
Can China’s new Type 052D Luyang III destroyers successfully see through the stealth of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II…
Document: Congressional Report on Joint Strike Fighter Program
The following is the April 29, 2014 Congressional Research Service report on the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF)…
Australia Orders 58 More Joint Strike Fighters
The Australian government has committed to buying an additional 58 Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters (JSF) for $12.4 billion…
Document: Joint Strike Fighter Acquisition Report
The following is a December 2013 report from the Pentagon on the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter program.…
F-35 Program Office Confident Marine Joint Strike Fighter Will Be Ready by 2015
The F-35 program office is confident that the aircraft’s Block 2B software will be ready in time for the U.S.…
GAO: Software Delays Could Translate into Less Effective Marine JSF
Delays in software developing and testing could limit the capabilities of the U.S. Marine Corps variants of the Lockheed Martin…
Document: GAO Report on Joint Strike Fighter Software Issues
The following is the March, 24 2014 Government Accountability Office report, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: Problems Completing Software Testing May…
Hagel: Navy to Lay Up 11 Cruisers, Carrier Cut Decision Delayed until 2016 Budget
The U.S. Navy will “lay up” half of the service’s fleet of Ticonderoga-class missile cruisers under the President’s fiscal year…
New Canopy Manufacturing Technique Could Cut Total JSF Costs by $125 million
The U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR) has developed a new manufacturing process to build fighter aircraft canopies. The…