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F-35B Needs Workaround to Fuse Sensor Data, General Says
The U.S. Marine Corps’ next-generation fighter jet will initially rely on a workaround to merge targeting data from multiple aircraft, a general said. Lt. Gen. Jon Davis, the service’s deputy...
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F-35 Gulps Fuel from Italian Tanker
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has gulped down thousands of pounds of jet fuel from an Italian air force tanker in another milestone for the weapons program, the Pentagon announced. During the mission...
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Analyst: Russian MiG-29 and Su-27 Top American F-35
Can Soviet-era fighter jets like the one above, the twin-engine MiG-29 Fulcrum, or the bigger one below, the Su-27 Flanker, outperform the newest American design, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter? Yes,...
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After Iran Nuke Deal, Russia to Deliver S-300 Missile Systems
Thanks in part to the Iran nuclear deal, Russia now plans to deliver as many as four S-300 missile systems to the country, according to a news report. Here’s what Russian Deputy Foreign Minister...
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Video: F-35A Gun Spits 181 Rounds in Seconds
Check out this video of the F-35A Joint Strike Fighter cannon spitting almost a couple of hundred rounds in seconds. This is the GAU-22/A, a four-barrel version of the five-barrel 25mm GAU-12/U...
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Air Force: F-35 Helmet is a ‘Workspace,’ Not a Helmet
The U.S. Air Force wants to use another word to describe the expensive, high-tech helmet that can “see through” windowless parts of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. When asked about the price tag for...
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Video: First F-35 Assembled Overseas Takes Flight
The first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to be assembled overseas took flight this week, the manufacturer announced. Italy’s inaugural F-35A Lightning II, known as AL-1 and assembled at the Cameri Final...
View ArticleLawmaker: Chinese J-31, J-20 ‘Mirror’ American F-35, F-22
A U.S. senator asked Pentagon officials why the government hasn’t retaliated against China for copying the designs of its most advanced fighter jets. Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia,...
View ArticleF-35 Still Dogged With ‘Deficiencies’: Pentagon Report
The U.S. military’s futuristic F-35 fighter jet remains dogged by dangerous problems sure to further complicate what is already the most expensive weapons project in history, a Pentagon report says....
View ArticleF-35 Stealth Fighter Still Has 419 ‘Deficiencies,’ Manager Says
The head of the U.S. Defense Department’s F-35 program said the number of “deficiencies” in the stealth fighter jet’s hardware and software is decreasing but that hundreds of technical challenges...
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F-35 Tested in Extreme Weather Conditions
The Pentagon’s F-35 Lightning II has been test-flying in extreme heat, artic cold, rain, humidity, ice and desert winds in a specially engineered climactic laboratory hangar at Eglin Air Force Base,...
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Pentagon Boosts Next Generation Submarines and Bombers
Next generation bomber and submarine programs for the Air Force and Navy turned out to be the winners out of the Pentagon’s roll out of its fiscal 2016 budget proposal. Both programs, designed to offer...
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Group: AF Skewed Data in A-10 ‘Smear Campaign’
The U.S. Air Force manipulated casualty data to make the A-10 attack aircraft appear more hazardous than it really is, according to a watchdog group. The service “cherry-picked” information on...
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Air Force Launches New Air Supremacy Effort for 2030
The U.S. Air Force is launching a new air-supremacy effort designed to identify and develop next-generation technologies to maintain America’s air dominance through 2030 at the same time the future of...
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New Small Diameter Bomb Doesn’t Fit Inside Marine’s F-35B
Joint Strike Fighter engineers will have to make adjustments to the weapons bay of the Marine Corps variant of the F-35 so the aircraft can carry a pin point glide bomb by 2022, JSF program officials...
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Software Glitch Causes F-35 to Incorrectly Detect Targets in Formation
Engineers are trying to fix the F-35’s software package after it was discovered the sensors for the Joint Strike Fighter malfunction when detecting targets when the aircraft flies in formation. Air...
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Air Force’s New Unmanned Strategy Has F-35 Pilots Flying Drones
An F-35 Joint Strike Fighter pilot will one day control a small fleet of nearby drones from the cockpit while in flight — according to a new Air Force report on autonomous systems, Air Force Chief...
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F-35B Leaps off Ski Jump for the First Time
The F-35B jump-jet version of the Joint Strike Fighter has completed its first takeoff from a ski jump, the Pentagon announced Tuesday. The stealthy fifth-generation fighter jet designed to fly like a...
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F-35A Flies Close-Air-Support Missions in First Green Flag
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter for the first time provided close-air support to ground troops in the Air Force’s Green Flag training exercise – the service’s large-scale air-to-ground mock combat...
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F-35s Fly in First Civilian Airshow in Wisconsin
Two F-35 Joint Strikes Fighters will perform at the EAA Airventure Oshkosh Airshow in Wisconsin in the F-35’s first commercial airshow appearance. Joined by the F-35 will also be U.S. Air Force F-22s,...
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