In the 1990s, the U.S. Department of Defense initiated the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, aiming to create a versatile ...

Both Boeing and Lockheed Martin's Joint Strike Fighter demonstration programs are about halfway toward completion of their flight tests. The conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) versions are ...

Boeing used a single version of its JSF prototype, the X-32A, to complete the test flights for both the Air Force and Navy versions. The company is currently preparing the X-32B for tests of its ...

Key Points – Boeing’s X-32 prototype, a contender in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) competition, ultimately lost to Lockheed’s X-35 (which became the F-35) for several key reasons. -A ...

Boeing and Lockheed Martin gamble on being the winner when government makes fighter programme selection Boeing and Lockheed Martin have begun to focus on the anticipated engineering and ...

Joint Strike Fighter (JSF)-style “diverterless” engine inlets lead the design revisions. ... Announcing the fourth prototype’s 16min first flight from Wenjiang airport in Chengdu, ...

The X-32 Joint Strike Fighter prototypes and the X-45A Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle model incorporated some of the Bird of Prey’s attributes. While Boeing declassified the jet’s design, ...

Two flying prototypes were green-lit and flew in 1987, and the aircraft broke several records that, ... The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter takes off. The X-35 demonstrates STOVL capability.

With no plan to build and test a Growth Option 2.0 prototype, the Air Force will not know whether the EEP measures up to these modest expectations until after the program is bought and fielded.

Oct. 26 -- The Pentagon has awarded a $200 billion contract, the Defense Department's largest ever, to Lockheed Martin Corp. for development of a next-generation fighter jet. The Bethesda, Md ...