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On the F-35 progress front, the Lightning IIs based at Hill Air Force Base have begun working on their 4-ship combat training missions. To that end, personnel from the 388th and 419th Fighter Wings have been flying against a number of threats on the Utah Test and Training Range. Whether you love it or hate […]
A comparison between the A-10 Warthog and the F-35 Lightning based on the BRRRTS by their autocannons. The 30mm Gau-8 Avenger Gatling gun of the A-10 or the 25mm Gau-22 Equalizer Gatling gun of the F-35 jet? Who you think will win? About the Gatling gun specs: The General Electric GAU-8/A Avenger is a 30 […]
FighterSweep Fans, we wanted to start your Sunday off with some pretty cool aerial footage shot of the Royal Netherlands Air Force’s F-35s. As one of the original partner nations for the Joint Strike Fighter, the Dutch are a critical contributor to the program. The Dutch Parliament approved an order for a lot of eight […]
The latest problem with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter? There might be something seriously wrong with the gold-plated aircraft’s brain. A Government Accountability Office report released Thursday raises concerns about the jet’s $16.7 billion Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS). The software is essentially the brain that enables the fifth-generation warplane to operate, tracking everything […]
Happy Friday, FighterSweep Fans! Despite what the date on the calendar says, we can assure you, this is not an April Fools joke. Contrary to what many are saying, the F-35 program is actually making significant strides in its journey toward full operational capability and system maturity. While it is true the aircraft has a […]
Fort Worth, Texas — “This room is the most advanced painting facility in the world,” retired US Air Force pilot and F-35 simulation instructor Rick Royer told me as we toured Lockheed Martin’s highly secure plane facility. The Aircraft Final Finishes bay is where America’s most expensive weapons system gets coated with a highly classified stealth technology, […]
Editor’s Note: If you were the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force and had one dollar in your pocket to spend, how would you do it? Would you expend those resources on legacy platforms to keep them in service as long as possible? Do you spend that whole dollar on tomorrow’s near-peer or […]
Editor’s Note: Our friends in the F-35 community have been busy of late and the jet continues its march toward Initial Operational Capability, or IOC– fragged to happen later this year. The 31st Test and Evaluation Squadron, as well as the 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron, have deployed pilots and a total of six aircraft to Mountain Home Air […]
President Obama’s 2017 budget request for the Marine Corps released Feb. 9 includes a small increase over last year’s funding, while continuing to procure expensive F-35B joint strike fighters. The Marine Corps is requesting a total of $23.4 billion base funding, only about $200 million more than was enacted in 2016. The base budget includes […]
As much as we would love to say we took each of these images, we didn’t. All of these photos are courtesy of the Italian Air Force, or Aeronautica Militare. As we mentioned previously, the first Italian F-35A Lightning II, which also happens to be the first foreign-built F-35, arrived in the United States from Italy […]
Editor’s Note: Truth be told, there are a LOT of good things happening inside the F-35 Lightning II program. Unfortunately, most of those things have to stay on the other side of the curtain, due to classification. Even so, we’ve been getting a lot of really encouraging news about how the jet is doing as it […]
[Editor’s Note: We’ve got some original F-35 content being generated in-house as we speak, but in the mean time check this one out. Lockheed-Martin delivered 45 airplanes last year, and the complement at Luke AFB in Arizona is growing rapidly to accommodate the need for training both American and international pilots on the new Joint […]
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