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F-35 test pilot shares what it's like to jump from flying an old F-16 to Lockheed Martin's newest 5th-gen stealth fighter
A test pilot who made the jump from the now fifty-year-old F-16 to the new F-35 stealth fighter told Business Insider that it is a wildly different experience. Think about the informational ...
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F-35B Completes First Test Flight with AGM-158C Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile
Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Pax River ITF completed an initial flight test integrating the AGM-158C LRASM onto the F-35B Lightning II, following the first test on the F-35C in September 2024.
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Portugal Drops Plans for F-35 Citing U.S. Political Uncertainty
The recent shift in U.S. policy toward NATO has led the Portuguese Defense Minister to deem a potential F-35 procurement ...
The Pentagon Denies the F-35 Has a Kill Switch, but Its Software Demands Amount to the Same Thing
Buying an F-35 is a lot like buying a Tesla. Buyers are locked into an ecosystem with complicated software that’s required to ...
India.com14d
Big worry for China as US successfully completes flight test of F-35B fighter jet, it can reach speed of…, Xi Jinping now plans to…
Earlier this month, on March 4, Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Pax River Integrated Test Force successfully completed an initial flight test of the F-35B Lightning II equipped with a Long-Range Anti ...
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F-35B conducts captive-carry test with Lockheed Martin AGM-158C LRASM
Lockheed Martin's AGM-158C Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) has made a captive-carry flight aboard an F-35B, the short-take-off-and-vertical-landing (STOVL) ...
Aviation Week23d
MBDA Meteor Makes Long-Awaited F-35 Test Flight
MBDA Meteor Makes Long-Awaited F-35 Test Flight is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is included with your AWIN ...
Trump announces new US sixth-generation fighter jet that will be built by Boeing
President Donald Trump announced the Pentagon’s decision to move forward with a next-generation fighter jet titled F-47 on ...
India.com29d
F-35 vs F-15EX Eagle II: Is combat-tested F-15 better than the F-35 stealth fighter that Trump offered India? Here’s what we know
Today we are comparing the F-35 stealth fighter to the F-15EX Eagle ... generation fighter in terms of air superiority in several test runs. While the F-15EX lacks stealth capabilities, the ...
Boeing wins battle for $20B fighter jet contract, Trump announces
The Pentagon will award its next-generation Air Force fighter jet contract to Boeing, a deal initially worth more than $20 ...
Shephard Media23d
MBDA’s Meteor completes first F-35B test flight
The US Marine Corps’ aircraft conducted the first test flight of the missile from Naval Air Station ... data as part of an ongoing campaign to integrate the UK weapon onto its F-35 aircraft and marked ...
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Canada reconsidering F-35 purchase amid tensions with Washington, says minister
How much it would cost to get out of the contract remains unclear. Billie Flynn, a retired lieutenant-colonel and former F-35 test pilot, says the threats made by Trump have shaken confidence in the U ...