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3 Jets, 1 Trillion Dollars: The Truth Behind the F-35 Program

The F-35 was meant to replace four different aircraft across the US military with a single design. Instead, it spawned three ...
The Aviationist

First F-35B Transported by CH-53K to MCAS Beaufort to be Retired as Static Display

Airframe BF-01 performed the F-35’s first vertical landing on Mar. 18, 2010, and the first vertical takeoff on May 10, 2013, at NAS Patuxent River. The first F-35B Lightning II STOVL (Short Take-Off ...

Why Selling US F-35 Jets to Saudi Arabia Is So Contentious

The friendship struck up between Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is so strong that the US president says he would approve selling the most advanced American fighter ...
The National Interest

F-35B to Take-off and Land on British and Japanese Warships in New War Game

As the product of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, the F-35 platform was conceptualized to fulfill the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s advanced short take-off/vertical landing ...
Stars and Stripes

How the F-35 became the best it could be

The U.S. has long been recognized for its technological edge in developing battlefield weaponry. The design work for such platforms occurs years before a system ever sees the light of day and, even ...