flightglobal.com — flightglobal.com has obtained exclusive photographs of Lockheed Martin's first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) as it emerged from the paint shop at Fort Worth, Texas ready for its formal roll-out and naming on 7 July.
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zeush8suJul 7, 2006
Isn't their better things to spend our money with?Like helping kids without families and disaster victims.What a waste.
obkenobiJul 7, 2006
[quote]Whatever happened to scaring the living s**t out of your enemy before you burn them to a cinder?[/quote]Beyond Visual Range missiles.
obkenobiJul 7, 2006
The UAV advocates here seem to have forgotten about something called JAMMING.When you're on the ground, hiding in a bunker, and your link to your UCAV is jammed, your UCAV is going to be useless. Then some poor medieval jerk with a kindergarten education and a surplus 1960s AA gun is going to shoot down your $50m UCAV.
fmarkosJul 7, 2006
Comment for maino82 From what I know there are no computers in anyway connected to nuclear weapons.I think they found them unreliable during the 70s or 80s and they made it a law to never use computers that could launch nuclear weapons.
gt0163cJul 7, 2006
The aircraft you're talking about is probably the Boeing Concept Demonstrator Aircraft (X-32). This is the companion aircraft to the Lockheed Marting X-35 which won the JSF competition in October 2001.The pictures linked in this article are the F-35, the first production (or close enough) aircraft in the JSF program.Also, the name which was officially announced for this aircraft is Lightening II, as expected.
osiris24xJul 17, 2006
Yet another astronomical waste of US tax dollars. Yay!
frednofrJul 21, 2006
Turkey is a member of NATO