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The GE Rolls-Royce Fighter Engine Team has successfully fired the afterburner on the F136 test engine for the first time as part of a testing regimen that will continue through this fall at the USAF testing facility in Tennessee.

A recent article by Martin Sieff Defense Focus: F-35 fantasies -- Part 2 shows some important misunderstandings about how close air support (CAS) is performed today.

Flight International reported that Lockheed Martin is looking at iniatives to keep the Joint Strike fighter programme on budget and on track at the mid-point of its development.

The fourth and final US Congressional subcommitte has voted to restore funding for the General Electric/Rolls-Royce F136 alternative engine for the JSF.

Recently a Lockheed Martin official at an Australian defense conference, stated that the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program is "a tough task". The question is: Does the U.S. Congress understand this?

Pratt & Whitney, a United Technologies Corp. company, was awarded a $60 million production contract for F135 engines to power the F-35 Lightning II.

Is the F-35 overhyped? That is one question that is being asked in light of both American refusal to release the source code for software, as well as the climbing price (up to $63 million per plane).

Northrop Grumman Corporation has delivered to Lockheed Martin, the initial release of software required to perform manufacturing checkout of the first F-35B short take-off vertical landing (STOVL) variant.

Lockheed Martin is choosing DGy digital recording and streaming technology from RGB Spectrum in California for F-35 Lightning II mission simulators.

The Pentagon awarded Lockheed Martin a $2.4 billion contract Friday to begin work on the second batch (LRIP II) of F-35 Lightning IIs.

A key congressional committee is set to approve the military's request for $6.1 billion to buy 12 Lockheed Martin F-35 jet fighters.

Today the British Ministry of Defence has given approval for construction of two future aircraft carriers (CVF) worth up to 3.9 million pounds.

A news report claimed that Lockheed Martin is dangling its next-generation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in front of India in a bid to win the IAC Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) competition.

Dutch Deputy Minister of Defence Cees van der Knaap on Tuesday asked his U.S. counterpart Gordon England to include the Netherlands as an equal partner in the testing phase of the JSF.

All three versions of the U.S. Joint Strike Fighter have now cleared the final milestone needed before entering the production phase.