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  First U.K. F-35 Flies

  Posted by Robert Wall 7:54 AM on Apr 16, 2012

  (Photo: Lockheed Martin)The first F-35 for the U.K. has now logged its first flight. BK-1 flew for around 45 minutes from Lockheed Martin's Ft. Worth, Tex. facility, with Lockheed ... Read More >>

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  Dutch Affirm Smaller JSF Plan

  Posted by Robert Wall 3:24 AM on Apr 16, 2012

  Dutch Defense Minister Hans Hillen has reaffirmed that the country is going to buy fewer F-35 Joint Strike Fighters than first planned.Hillen made those comments in a Dutch televis... Read More >>

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  The Dismal Science

  Posted by Bill Sweetman 1:37 PM on Mar 07, 2012

  Last Friday's meeting in Washington of Joint Strike Fighter partners didn't result in any huge public issues, and it would have been surprising if it had. Norwegian defense minis... Read More >>

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  F-35B Now Flying with AIM-9X and Gun Pod (Pictures)

  Posted by Robert Wall 11:06 AM on Feb 24, 2012

  A few days after the F-35A began flight trials with weapon stores, the F-35B short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing version has now followed with its own first weapons-stores flight:(P... Read More >>

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  PICTURE: F-35 Flies With External Stores

  Posted by Graham Warwick 5:55 PM on Feb 20, 2012

  The F-35 has completed its first external weapons flight test, an F-35A CTOL test aircraft flying with AIM-9X air-to-air missiles on the outboard wing stations and unoccupied pylon... Read More >>

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  JSF "Acquisition Malpractice" -- Pentagon Procurement Boss

  Posted by Bill Sweetman 4:20 PM on Feb 06, 2012

  Putting the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter into production before flight testing had started was "acquisition malpractice," acting Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kenda... Read More >>

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  JSF Proponents Say The Darndest Things, Part 2

  Posted by Bill Sweetman 3:46 PM on Feb 02, 2012

  Joint Strike Fighter supporters are far from gruntled about the Pentagon's plan to cut production in the FY2013-17 buy years, reportedly to no more than 29 aircraft in 2013 and 201... Read More >>

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  UPDATE: Stovl JSF-B Taken Off Probation

  Posted by Michael Bruno 12:48 PM on Jan 20, 2012

  Expectations have been growing since last fall, but today might be the day that the Pentagon declares the Stovl F-35B comes off probation ... or will. Defense Secretary Leon Panett... Read More >>

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  GE and Rolls Terminate F136 and FET

  Posted by Guy Norris 4:31 PM on Dec 02, 2011

  After 15 years of ups and downs, General Electric and Rolls-Royce have accepted defeat in their battle to power the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and will today announce the end of the... Read More >>

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  A Look Behind the U.K.'s JSF, Carrier Decision

  Posted by Robert Wall 12:01 AM on Nov 29, 2011

  The U.K.'s National Audit Office has once again revisited the government's decision on carrier strike, which included the shift from the F-35B to the F-35C. When it last discussed ... Read More >>

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