The Joint Strike Fighter program took another step forward July 1 with a successful weapons test following last month's announcement that the U.S. would bump up production of the much maligned fifth ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Our friends at Politico Defense are reporting the following: Government and industry engineers are blaming three defense contractors for a "quality discrepancy" that resulted in the grounding of the ...

WASHINGTON, April 1 (UPI) -- The Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program continues to trigger new controversies. Latest comments allege flawed estimates of the jet's weight and, as before, ...

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 ...

The conclusion of a second memorandum of understanding on the Joint Strike Fighter in December opened the door for the JSF to progress from being a paper airplane to an aircraft in production.

The Dutch government's decision on joining the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program has been delayed again. An April 23 vote in parliament on whether to reject the cabinet's recommendation to ...

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 primary factor ...