F-35 Joint Strike Fighter News, Videos and pics Thread

[Jeff Head]

Yesterday at 12:01 PM
now First F-35B shipboard deployment to begin as US warship arrives in Japan
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Yep. Here she is with some of the F-35Bs embarked:

 

[Jeff Head]

The are already performing night operations form the Wasp and America class with the F-35Bs.



We have yet to see full night time operations with the PLAN yet. I am looking forward to one day seeing them perform at night.

 

[TerraN_EmpirE]

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Here Is Italy’s First F-35B Lightning II Flying In Full Italian Navy Markings For The First Time Today
Jan 18 2018

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The aircraft will be officially delivered to the Marina Militare next week. Today it flew for the first time in full Italian Navy markings.
On Jan. 18, the first Italian F-35B, the first short-take and vertical landing Lightning II aircraft assembled outside the US, designated BL-1, carried out a test flight in STOVL mode at Cameri airfield, home of the Final Assembly and Check Out (FACO) facility, in northwestern Italy, sporting full Italian Navy markings for the very first time.

Aviation photographer and friend Franco Gualdoni was there and took the photographs of the F-35B flying in the early afternoon sun.

The aircraft, serialled MM7451/4-01, will be taken on charge by the Marina Militare with a ceremony scheduled at the FACO on Jan. 25, 2018. After delivery, the aircraft will be transferred to the Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland, to obtain the Electromagnetic Environmental Effects certification, before moving (most probably) to

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home of U.S. Marine Corps F-35B pilot training.

The aircraft, that

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, sports a livery quite similar to the one of the

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it features the wolf’s head insignia on the tail, the wolf’s paw prints on the rudder, the Italian Navy roundel and the MARINA text.

Italy plans to procure 90 F-35s: 60 F-35As for the Air Force and 30 F-35Bs for both the ItAF and Italian Navy. The Navy’s STOVL aircraft will replace the ageing Harrier jump jets at Grottaglie airbase, in southeastern Italy, and aboard the

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The F-35B MM7451 during its test flight in full Marina Militare markings (Credit: Franco Gualdoni)

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And the Beat goes on.

 

[Jeff Head]

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Here Is Italy’s First F-35B Lightning II Flying In Full Italian Navy Markings For The First Time Today
Jan 18 2018

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The F-35B MM7451 during its test flight in full Marina Militare markings (Credit: Franco Gualdoni)

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And the Beat goes on.

Amen to that!

Now to see a deck full of them on the Cavour!

 

[FORBIN]

Amen to that!

Now to see a deck full of them on the Cavour!

15 planned replace 16 AV-8B+/TAV-8B Cavour can host after modifications and the new LHD Trieste which going to replaced Garibaldi also but the Cavour is the true carrier
But dispointing number initialy planned about 120 and only 90 F-35 purchased replace 53 AMX + 56 Tornados + 16 AV-8B+/TAV-8B : 125 the number is not there !

 

[Jura The idiot]

6530/34 is about192

The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Belgium of thirty-four (34) F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Conventional Take Off and Landing aircraft for an estimated cost of $6.53 billion. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale today.

The Government of Belgium has requested to buy thirty-four (34) F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Conventional Take Off and Landing (CTOL) aircraft, and thirty-eight (38) Pratt & Whitney F-135 engines (34 installed, 4 spares). Also included are Electronic Warfare Systems; Command, Control, Communications, Computer and Intelligence/Communications, Navigational, and Identification (C4I/CNI); Autonomic Logistics Global Support System (ALGS); Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS); Full Mission Trainer; Weapons Employment Capability, and other Subsystems, Features, and Capabilities; F-35 unique infrared flares; Reprogramming center; F-35 Performance Based Logistics; software development/integration; aircraft ferry and tanker support; support equipment; tools and test equipment; communications equipment; spares and repair parts; personnel training and training equipment; publications and technical documents; U.S. Government and contractor engineering and logistics personnel services; and other related elements of logistics and program support. The estimated total case value is $6.53 billion.

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... etc. (dated JAN. 18, 2018): Belgium – F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft

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[Air Force Brat]

6530/34 is about192
... etc. (dated JAN. 18, 2018): Belgium – F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft

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CHA-CHING! Ring up another sale Bro, we gonna make us some US DOLLAR's!!!!!

F-32? F-35??? what the HECK?? Trump don't care, Trump gonna sell some airplanes to our Friend Bro, they want them funny little, slo, frumpy fat girls,,, that are so broke they never do get to fly,,,,, yeah! that's why "EVERYBODY" wants ONE!

GO TRUMP! GO USA! GO LOCKMART! go team GO! yep, we gonna make some bucks and put folks back to work!

YES, I am doing my Native American, victory dance, with my moccasins, my BIG KNIFE, and my TOMAHAWK missiles!

That's right, I am for MY COUNTRY! God Bless the USA! and Amen!

 

[Jura The idiot]

CHA-CHING! Ring up another sale Bro, we gonna make us some US DOLLAR's!!!!!

F-32? F-35??? what the HECK?? Trump don't care, Trump gonna sell some airplanes to our Friend Bro, they want them funny little, slo, frumpy fat girls,,, that are so broke they never do get to fly,,,,, yeah! that's why "EVERYBODY" wants ONE!

GO TRUMP! GO USA! GO LOCKMART! go team GO! yep, we gonna make some bucks and put folks back to work!

YES, I am doing my Native American, victory dance, with my moccasins, my BIG KNIFE, and my TOMAHAWK missiles!

That's right, I am for MY COUNTRY! God Bless the USA! and Amen!

you OK bro?

 

[Jura The idiot]

Jan 10, 2018

Jul 19, 2017
while Turkey wants to link F-35 jets to its Air Force network

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now 4 Turkish firms bid for F-35, Air Force network-linking contract

Turkey’s defense procurement agency has named four local bidders for a critical contract that aims to combine all information systems on the country’s planned F-35 Lightning II jets to the Turkish Air Force’s system network.

The Undersecretariat for Defence Industries (SSM in its Turkish acronym) says the four are: military software specialists Altay Yazilim, Aydin Yazilim, Havelsan and Milsoft Yazilim.

Of the bidders, all but Havelsan are privately owned companies. Havelsan is a state-controlled entity.

“The local interest in the program is an indication of the government’s intention to make the combined system as indigenous as possible,” a procurement official said.

SSM dubs the program

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Under the program, the successful contender will connect the information systems installed on the F-35 fighter aircraft with the Air Force’s information systems network, otherwise known as HvBS.

“The program involves safe connection of information systems elements between the F-35 aircraft and the Air Force’s information systems network as well as safe sharing of classified information between these systems,” SSM said.

SSM’s department for cybersecurity and electronic warfare systems will be in charge of the program.

Turkey is a partner in the U.S.-led, multinational Joint Strike Fighter program. Under the JSF program, Turkey has committed to procure a total of 116 aircraft. Turkey placed its first JSF order in 2014 under its low-rate initial production 10 program, and its second order in October 2016.

Turkey’s procurement and military officials are hoping to build a new-generation, dual-fighter jet fleet by their country’s centennial, 2023, comprising of the F-35 and an indigenous aircraft, known as TF-X, that Ankara has been designing under a know-how contract with BAE Systems.

Industry sources said the program to build critical links between the F-35 aircraft and Turkey’s combined Air Force command network probably won’t cost hundreds of millions of dollars, but it was tagged as “strategic” by the procurement authority.

But some foreign observers remain cautious. “Naturally there will be limits to the Turkish work as part of this program,” according to a London-based aerospace specialist. “The Turks may not be able to go as far as they wish to.”

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[Air Force Brat]

Jan 10, 2018
now 4 Turkish firms bid for F-35, Air Force network-linking contractsource is DefenseNews

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Hey, if they want to buy those Russian S-400s let em, but I think I'd seriously consider pulling the plug on the F-35 deal, and relocate that service center ASAP!