JSF HONCHO: The Joint Strike Fighter program will get a new leader. U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Christopher C. Bogdan has been nominated for a third star and will be assigned as director of the Joint ...

JSF GUN: General Dynamics, which is developing the gun system for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, is ahead of schedule and under cost with that effort and recently completed a successful critical ...

When it first flew in 2006, the F-35 was pitched as the future of strike fighter combat. Decked out with the latest military avionics, it was intended to dominate anything on the ground or in the ...

The Pentagon’s top official for weapons testing sent a sternly worded letter warning the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program and the Air Force that their plans to start unmonitored flight training on ...

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is the world’s premier fifth-generation air platform. Its performance is unmatched by any existing fourth-generation aircraft as well as the so-called ...

<p><br><P> In a widely expected move, the Pentagon announced Tuesday that President Barack Obama has nominated Vice Adm. David J. Venlet to direct the troubled Joint Strike Fighter Program.<P> If ...

East Hartford-based Pratt & Whitney has moved the manufacture of the engine that will power the Joint Strike Fighter into the early production phase after receiving a $60 million production contract ...

Roxana Tiron deserves high praise for her informative article on the impending shortfall of carrier fighter jets (“Debate over fighter jets intensifies,” April 20), which could seriously impair the ...

Lockheed Martin Corp.’s LMT Aeronautics business segment recently secured a modification contract involving its F-35 fighter jet program. The award has been offered by the Naval Air Systems Command, ...

Lockheed Martin Corp. has been awarded the contract for the Joint Strike Fighter program, the Pentagon said. The possibly $200 billion contract was announced by Jim Roche, secretary of the Air Force, ...