F-35 LIGHTNING II MAKES DEBUT
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley announces Lightning II as the name selected for the new Lockheed Martin F-35 during the inauguration ceremony at the Lockheed Martin plant in Fort Worth, Texas on July 7, 2006. (Image photo/Lockheed Martin)
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Northrop Grumman praised its Australian supplier of advanced composite parts for Northrop's center fuselage for F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighters.
Australia will hold defense spending at $100 billion over four years and remains committed to the purchase of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Australia will use a full-scale F-35A Joint Strike Fighter model to study the effects of electromagnetic compatibility and interference on the aircraft.
Wings for Lockheed Martin's F-35 joint strike fighter are to be supplied by Israel Aerospace Industries under a contract with a potential value of $2.5 billion.
President Barack Obama's 2014 budget would provide $526.6 billion for U.S. Defense Department's base funding, down $3.9 billion from the amount enacted in 2012.
Northrop Grumman in California has celebrated the delivery of its 100th center fuselage for a U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II to Lockheed Martin.
Indonesia and South Korea are cooperating in building a joint fighter but politics are delaying progress.
Acquisition activities for the F-35 Lightning II and other systems by the U.S. Air Force will receive lifecycle support from Alion Science and Technology.
Composite parts for the international F-35 Lightning II program will be made by Terma of Denmark under a deal with U.S. firm Lockheed Martin Aeronautics.
Tokyo is concerned that the F-35 sales, which contain Japanese components, might violate Japanese legal prohibitions on weapons exports to designated countries.
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