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Air Force to trim its order of F-35s
Dec 22, 2004 - Air Force chief of staff, Gen. John Jumper has confirmed that the service is planning to buy fewer F-35 joint strike fighters than originally expected. [Read more...]
Norway may rethink its F-35 plans
Dec 22, 2004 - The 57 F-16 jets that are in service with the Norwegian Air Force are old, but they have been upgraded to such an extent that the planes are still among the world's most modern jet fighter fleet. [Read more...]
F-35 'flies' above central New York
Nov 23, 2004 - Sophisticated antenna testing is under way on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Newport antenna research and measurement facility. [Read more...]
Equipment swap failure forces Dutch JSF delay
Nov 23, 2004 - The Netherlands is delaying its planned introduction of the F-35A Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft by two years to 2014. The measure will release money needed to pay for newly emerging acquisitions, which for a major part have become necessary because of Norway's controversial decision, last September, to cancel a major equipment swap with the Netherlands. [Read more...]
Full-scale F-35 pole model begins mission systems testing
Nov 12, 2004 - Multi-phase Mission Systems aperture testing is under way on a full-scale model of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter at the Air Force Research Laboratories' Newport, N.Y., test facility. [Read more...]
Piaggio Aero to produce parts of F-35 engine
Nov 09, 2004 - Pratt & Whitney awarded the production of a crucial part of the F135 engine, which will equip the F-35 JSF, to Piaggio Aero. The agreement is part of the System Development and Demonstration programme. [Read more...]
Pentagon gives green light for tri-service F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program
Nov 09, 2004 - The Pentagon has cleared the next stage in the development of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a procurement project valued at more than $240 billion, the biggest ever, the Defense Department said last week. [Read more...]
JSF Electro-Optical Targeting Technology on track
Nov 09, 2004 - Lockheed Martin is confident about the progress of the Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS) for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), with first flight targeted for March 2009. [Read more...]
Avionics integration for F-35 first flight shows early success
Oct 28, 2004 - Initial integration testing of the Communication, Navigation and Identification (CNI) suite for the first flight of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has begun at Lockheed Martin's Mission Systems Integration Lab (MSIL) in Fort Worth. [Read more...]
Pratt & Whitney Canada to provide rotor for F-35 Joint Strike Fighter engines
Oct 13, 2004 - Pratt & Whitney Canada has won a major contract to build a component for the engine under development by its U.S. parent company to power the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. [Read more...]
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