- Lockheed Martin Wins JSF Contract.
The Pentagon recently announced that an international team led by Lockheed Martin has won the competition to build the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), a stealthy, supersonic, multirole fighter designed for the US Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, as well as the UK Royal Air Force and Royal Navy. This ......
- U.S. 'Paper Aircraft' Spawning Trade
Wars.
The U.S. joint Strike Fighter is not scheduled to start rolling off the assembly line for at least a decade. But it already is viewed as a threat to European fighter aircraft programs. To be sure, the JSF has not entered any fighter competitions around the world. The prototypes developed ......
- A fighter with flexibility.
The Defense Department is looking for adaptability and affordability in its next-generation strike fighter. Common components and modular design should help the new plane meet the special needs of the armed forces. The United States' formidable fleet of fighter and ground-attack aircraft - including approximately 1,800 Air Force F-16s; 700 ......
- Joining the pieces: engineers are choreographing the
assembly of the Joint Strike Fighter.
From its inception, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter was to be a single aircraft platform for deployment by the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps. But the services' different missions required variants of the F-35 airframe and structure. The Air Force needed a tough, lightweight aircraft that could operate ......
- Air Force to Select Advanced Targeting
Pod.
Third generation forward-looking infrared needed for high-altitude strikes The U.S. Air Force plans to upgrade its F-16 and F-15 fighters with new instrumentation and sensor pods that would bolster their ability to strike moving targets with laser-guided bombs from high altitudes. The goal is to replace the 30-year-old technology currently ......
- Taking flight
MARIETTA, GA—When Lockheed Martin needed to manufacture the US Air Force's next-generation fighter aircraft, the F/A-22 Raptor, to the highest possible standards while holding down manufacturing costs, the company turned to long-time subcontractor Delta Sigma for assistance. Lockheed Martin asked the Acworth, GA-based company to develop an extremely high-precision alignment ......
- Northrop enters the competition to build new U.S./U.K.
military fighter.
Northrop Grumman Corp. earlier this month entered the competition with three other teams to produce a new military fighter aircraft for the United States and United Kingdom. Northrop joins another local contractor, Calabasas-based Lockheed Corp., in the competition for the aircraft project. Other announced teams are headed by McDonnell Douglas ......