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Topic: Lightning II

Lightning II is the subject or is mentioned in the following stories:

Analysis: European defense contracts

BRUSSELS, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Agusta beating Sikorsky for Indian VIP copter deal; Saab may sell Gripen to Netherlands; France, Greece, Netherlands to receive Hellfire missiles; Rosoboronexport sells APCs to Indonesia

Major defense contractors form partnership

FARNBOROUGH, England, July 17 (UPI) -- U.S. companies Alliant Techsystems, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman have formed a partnership to address a potential void in the weapons systems market.

ViaSat to develop next-gen CNI stimulator

CARLSBAD, Calif., July 15 (UPI) -- U.S. company Lockheed Martin has awarded ViaSat Inc. a contract for a stimulator to support avionics testing of F-35 Lightning II aircraft.

Goodrich to supply door drives for F-35s

CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 14 (UPI) -- U.S. company Northrop Grumman has contracted Goodrich Corp. to support the production of F-35 Lightning II aircraft with weapons bay door drive technology.

LM awards deal for F-35 support

NIJMEGEN, Netherlands, July 10 (UPI) -- Netherlands-based DapTechnology has been contracted by U.S. company Lockheed Martin to support the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter program.

F135 STOVL earns certification

EAST HARTFORD, Conn., May 21 (UPI) -- Connecticut-based Pratt & Whitney received an up-and-away flight operations certification for its F135-PW-600 short-takeoff/vertical-landing propulsion system.

VMETRO to support F-35 program

HOUSTON, May 16 (UPI) -- VMETRO announced it has been contracted by Lockheed Martin to support the U.S. Defense Department's next-generation strike fighter F-35 Lightning II program.

Lightning II starts STOVL tests next year

FORT WORTH, Texas, May 1 (UPI) -- Lockheed Martin says it will run its F-35B through regular flights before testing its STOVL systems.

Lockheed test-fires F-35B engine

FORT WORTH, Texas, May 1 (UPI) -- Lockheed Martin test-fired the engine for its F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter for the first time.

Defense Focus: Weapons evolution -- Part 3

WASHINGTON, April 21 (UPI) -- When it comes to the evolution of weapons, designers make things bigger when they can't think of anything else to do with them.
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