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Ignore the X-32's big mouth: The JSF pick was really about networks

Was the Joint Strike Fighter program a jet choice or doctrine choice and have the airframe choose the jet? The defeat of the Boeing X-32 to what was later to become the F-35 is usually seen as loss of ...

A Lockheed exec tells BI what's needed to fix the F-35's biggest problems

The supersonic aircraft is widely recognized as a top fifth-generation fighter jet, but the program has faced criticisms.
Aviation Week

Turkey Should Be Readmitted To F-35 Program, President Says

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says it was “unfair” to banish his country from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program and has called for Ankara to be readmitted to the project. In his first ...
The Business Journals

Lockheed CEO Hewson: 'No show stoppers' with Joint Strike Fighter program

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Hewson, speaking at Bethesda-based Lockheed's media day in ...
American Machinist

F-35 Deliveries Hit New Record

Last September the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin finalized terms for production Lots 18 and 19 of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, agreements totaling $24 billion for delivery of up to 296 ...
Wall Street Journal

An F-35 Sale to Turkey Won’t Endanger Israel

Turkey was the seventh nation to join the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program in 2002 and the only one to be kicked out. And rightly so. Ankara was warned for years that its decision to purchase the ...
The National Interest

F-35 Tech Upgrades Will Last Through 2032

Once the TR-3 upgrade package is implemented, the F-35 will pose an even greater threat to adversaries. Though the US Air Force and Navy’s upcoming Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) and F/A-XX ...