F-35 Lightning Jet
by Robert Bales
Title
F-35 Lightning Jet
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Robert Bales
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Photograph - Photo
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While spending the winter in Yuma, Arizona we have these going over our house at least once a week. The bombing range is just a little distance from our house.
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, fifth-generation multirole fighters under development to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions withstealth capability. The F-35 has three main models; the F-35A is a conventional takeoff and landing variant, the F-35B is a short take-off and vertical-landing variant, and the F-35C is a carrier-based variant.
The F-35 is descended from the X-35, the product of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program. It is being designed and built by an aerospace industry team led by Lockheed Martin. Other major F-35 industry partners include Northrop Grumman, Pratt & Whitney and BAE Systems. The F-35 took its first flight on 15 December 2006. The United States plans to buy 2,443 aircraft. The F-35 variants are intended to provide the bulk of its manned tactical airpower for the U.S. Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy over the coming decades. Deliveries of the F-35 for the U.S. military are to be completed in 2037
Lightning II has been designed from the outset to carry out a wide range of mission types, able to use its very low observable characteristics to penetrate Integrated Air Defence Systems and strike a number of types of targets. In a permissive environment, Lightning II is able to carry weapons on external pylons, as well as in the internal weapon bays. This will allow a maximum weapon payload of 6 Paveway IV, 2 AIM-120C AMRAAM, 2 AIM-132 ASRAAM and a missionised 25mm gun pod.
The Lightning II design applies stealth technology manufacturing techniques and, to minimise its radar signature, the airframe has identical sweep angles for the leading and trailing edges of the wings and tail, and incorporates sloping sides for the fuselage and the canopy.
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Comments (16)
Tony Lee
Looks to me like a nice picture of a Boeing F/A-18. Don't know if this TWIN_engined aircarft is the older model, or the Super Hornet!
John Bailey
Congratulations on being featured in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
Sheri Keith
Great capture seldom seen of the underside of the fighter jet and description!
Robert Bales replied:
Thanks Sheri for the great comment. They seem to make the turn over our house.
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