By Eric Pianin July 10, 2015 For more than a dozen years, the Pentagon has steadfastly stood behind the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program as the next generation of jet fighters for the Air Force, Navy, and Marines, despite nightmarish development problems and daunting cost overruns. The overall cost of developing and purchasing the jets […]
By Zachary Cohen July 16, 2015 Three years behind schedule and some $200 billion over its original budget, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program is finally set to become operational this month. The fighter jet has been in development for nearly 15 years, weathered half a dozen years of testing and experienced myriad hardware malfunctions […]
By the Motley Fool July 12, 2015 For all its troubles, Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE:LMT) F-35 joint stealth fighter remains a very popular warplane — both here and abroad. Over the next 60 years, Lockheed Martin aims to sell as many as 5,100 F-35s to customers around the globe. And as we just learned from DoDBuzz, […]
By Tyler Rogoway July 13, 2015 F-35 pilot Maj. John Wilson is back in the second part of his interview with our friends at Krigeren.dk. This time the conversation moved from the F-35’s capabilities, especially those as a close air support platform, to the jet’s much-touted half a million dollar helmet with quasi-X-Ray vision, a […]
By Meg Jones July 18, 2015 The military’s long-awaited, years-in-development F-35 fighter jet will roar across the skies of Oshkosh this week in its first civilian U.S. air show appearance. Military aircraft have long been a staple at EAA AirVenture, but this year visitors can see the brand-new F-35 Lightning II as well as rare […]
F-35 UPDATE: Help crossing the finish line Dear F-35 activists, I’m writing to ask your help in crossing the finish line and completing the job many of you started back in 2010 opposing the basing of the F-35A in the midst of our residential communities. We have been phenomenally successful, and the end of our […]
By Brian Everstine July 9, 2015 The Air Force plans to turn to the Air Force Reserve for manpower to bring the F-35 online after Congress blocked the service’s attempt to free up maintainers through retirement of the A-10, the head of Air Force Reserve Command said Tuesday. “The active duty has a pretty significant […]
By LEE FERRAN July 1, 2015 The makers of one of the most expensive weapons programs in history went on the defensive today, saying a recent report on the F-35 fighter jet’s failures in old-school dogfighting against a decades-old, much cheaper legacy fighter “does not tell the whole story.” The report in question, posted on […]
F-16 fighter jet, small plane collide midair http://www.airforcetimes.com/story/military/2015/07/07/officials-f16-cessna-c150-small-plane-collide-in-midair/29816379/ 2 killed when F-16, Cessna collide in midair over S.C. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/07/07/f16-crash-south-carolina/29815069/ NTSB: 2 killed when F-16, small plane crash; jet pilot safe http://m.aol.com/article/2015/07/07/officials-f-16-small-plane-collide-in-midair/21206155/ “Military aircraft usually are involved in at least one mishap a month on average, military aviation which is relatively safe can still be dangerous […]
by Sheila MacVicar May 15, 2015 BURLINGTON, Vt. – After years of delays and busted budgets, America’s most expensive weapons system – the F-35 fighter jet – is starting its service. With its stealthy design and millions of lines of computer code that act as a kind of artificial intelligence, it’s being hailed as the […]