All versions of the Joint Strike Fighter have had a number of deficiencies identified.
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For instance, all four units have some role on the F-35 joint strike fighter.
Moreover, the US seems to be torpedoing Israel's acquisition of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
The RAF's newest stealth aircraft, the Joint Strike Fighter, will be based in Norfolk, the defence secretary has revealed.
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is the most expensive weapons program the U.S. Department of Defense is currently funding.
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The Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) F-35 fifth-generation aircraft could possibly provide such flexibility.
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As for the Joint Strike Fighter, it is geared more for ground attacks and is far less sophisticated than the F-22.
He added that virtual intruders have previously tried to extract files related to missile tracking systems and the Joint Strike Fighter.
The latter would, the Navy hopes, be the jump-jet variant of the future Joint Strike Fighter that America is currently developing.
Some of its marquee military aircraft include the F-35 joint strike fighter, F-16 fighter, F-22 Raptor stealth fighter and the C-130J Hercules airlifter.
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Now UTC gets less than a fifth of its revenue from military aviation, including Sikorsky helicopters and engines for the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
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The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is another programme that looks vulnerable.
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They would carry short-take-off and vertical-landing versions of the Joint Strike Fighter, stealthy planes that are being developed jointly with America to replace the Harrier jump-jets.
So Boeing is left as the only bidder for a defence contract second only to the enormous Joint Strike Fighter contract won by Lockheed Martin in 2001.
Programs he has gone after in the past include agricultural subsidies, defense programs such as C-17 military transport planes, and an alternate engine for the Pentagon's Joint Strike Fighter.
It is no coincidence that in the same remarks where Secretary Gates recommended killing the vehicle, he also threatened to cancel the Marine version of the joint strike fighter.
So they are buying a version of the next-generation joint strike fighter that can take off and land vertically, eliminating the need for long runways or aircraft carrier catapults.
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The RAF has reluctantly put forward options to cut its fleet of fast jets - Tornadoes or Harriers - in the hope that they will get the new Joint Strike Fighter instead.
As the most expensive defence project ever undertaken starts to come to fruition, the BBC has been given exclusive access to the world's most advanced fighter jet, the Joint Strike Fighter or F-35.
The Pentagon has placed so many draconian restrictions on its purchase of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and raised the price so high, that it makes little strategic or economic sense to purchase it.
The previous Labour government had placed orders for two new aircraft carriers to be equipped with the F-35B variant of the American-built joint strike fighter (JSF), which is capable of short take-off and vertical landing.
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Europe's firms can help themselves by forming closer links with their American counterparts (as British Aerospace has done by co-operating with Lockheed Martin on a new scout vehicle and on America's new Joint Strike Fighter).
Critics carp that the plane is unneeded in a post-Cold War world and that we should, instead, only upgrade the F-15 and F-16 and wait for the proposed Joint Strike Fighter aircraft that's coming several years hence.
However, it decided to acquire 12 new Growlers instead to avoid taking any of the existing Super Hornets out of action, and "to assure Australia's air combat capability during the transition period to the Joint Strike Fighter".
Critics carp that the plane is unneeded in a post-Cold War world and that we should, instead, only upgrade the F-15 and F-16 and wait for the proposed Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft that's coming several years hence.
At the same time, we accelerated or increased weapons programs needed to confront real and growing threats -- the Joint Strike Fighter, the Littoral Combat Ship, and more helicopters and reconnaissance support for our troops at the front.
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Most of the third-party studies by experts have concluded that buying an alternate engine to compete with the primary United Technologies engine in the joint strike fighter program would at best bring the government modest operational or budgetary benefits.
For instance, former Navy Secretary Gordon England was launched by the admirals on a hapless mission to kill the Marine version of the F-35 joint strike fighter during the first Bush Administration, only to be shot down in joint deliberations.
Although GE currently makes engines for several U.S. fighters, the future of the high-performance military engine business is the F-35 joint strike fighter, which will replace most of the tactical aircraft in the joint fleet over the next 30 years.
The trust gap was further underscored by newly publicized claims Tuesday that China employed cyberattacks to access data from nearly 40 Pentagon weapons programs and almost 30 other defense technologies ranging from missile defense systems to the F-35 joint strike fighter.
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