“THE F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS SLATED TO BE ARMED WITH THE B61 NUCLEAR BOMB AS EARLY AS 2020, BUT COULD CARRY THE WEAPON SOONER.” -Lt General Jack Weinstein, Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration
By FRANKLIN C. “CHUCK” SPINNEY for The American Conservative• January 18, 2019 President Donald Trump’s plan to escalate efforts in Ballistic Missile Defense (BDM), including the introduction of space-based weapons, should not be viewed in isolation. It comes on top of the Defense Department’s plan to execute an across-the-board modernization of all our nuclear strike forces. It comes on top of […]
By Stephen Carlson for UPI, November 16, 2018 Nov. 16 (UPI) — The Department of Defense is awarding Lockheed Martin $349 million to provide infrastructure for laboratories and flight testing in support of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter. The contract will run through March 2020 under fiscal 2018 research, development, test and evaluation funding from the […]
By: Stephen Carlson for Space Daily, Nov. 16, 2019 The Department of Defense is awarding Lockheed Martin $349 million to provide infrastructure for laboratories and flight testing in support of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter. The contract will run through March 2020 under fiscal 2018 research, development, test and evaluation funding from the […]
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By Oriana Pawlyk Jan 10, 2017 The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is slated to be armed with the B61 nuclear bomb as early as 2020, but could carry the weapon sooner, a general said. The stealthy fifth-generation fighter made by Lockhead Martin Corp. is set to be bitted with the B61-12 Mod gravity bomb — […]
In this paper are links to three files from the Administrative Record from the F-35A Operational Basing Environmental Impact Statement, and two articles from military.com regarding the F-35 carrying nuclear weapons. NOTE: Any definitive statement regarding whether and where nuclear weapons will be stored is classified; and would obviously not be released to the public. […]