Tom Cruise To Fly The New F-35 Joint Strike Fighter In 'Top Gun 2'
Hollywood is going back to "Top Gun" school with its upcoming sequel to the 1986 film, but hotshot pilot Maverick won't be flying any killer robot drones. Instead, Tom Cruise is set to return in the...
View ArticleThe Pentagon Is About To Waste $1.5 Trillion On The 'Flying Piano' F-35
The Pentagon is about to waste $1.5 trillion, 38% of entire defense budget for a "virtual flying piano". That may sound preposterous, and it is. Unfortunately, it is also true. Foreign Policy Magazine...
View ArticlePentagon Slams 'Worst Ever' Contractor Lockheed Over F-35 Problems
* No more money for fixing problems - Air Force Secretary * F-35 official says Pentagon, Lockheed ties "worst" he's ever seen * Helmet, software, computer system said still struggling WASHINGTON, Sept...
View ArticleCanada's F-35s Are Now $37 Billion More Than Promised And It's Outraging The...
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been the jet of choice for Canada since 2001, but a milestone was reached in 2010 when defense minister Peter MacKay announced his intention to buy 65...
View ArticleNew Imaging System Could Make America's Stealth Technology Obsolete
The stealth technology of America's fifth-generation jet fighters, the F-22 and the F-35, could be obsolete after a new discovery from the University of Rochester in New York.One main goal of...
View ArticleThe F-35 Isn't Going Anywhere And The Pentagon Wants You To Know It (LMT)
Canada's announcement earlier this month that it was considering aircraft other than the F-35 for renewing its fleet seems to have prompted a string of reassuring moves by the U.S.Within days the...
View ArticleCompletion Of The $382 Billion F-35 Fighter Project Is Nowhere In Sight
It's supposed to be the future of American air combat power, but the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Fighter may as well be called the "flying problem child."It's had issues with its software, which...
View ArticleThe F-35 Could Explode In Midair If Struck By Lightning
The F-35 is unable to fly within 25 miles of a thunderstorm because engineers believe it could explode if struck by lightning.The storm restriction will not be lifted until an oxygen gauge in the fuel...
View ArticleHow The F-35 Turned Into Such A Disaster
It may look good, but the F-35 Lightning II has some serious issues, and it has a long way to go before it can be rolled out for combat missions.It's gone through 20,000 tests of its systems, but has...
View ArticleThe Entire Fleet Of F-35s Has Been Grounded
An engine blade crack is the newest culprit in the ongoing F-35 saga.Reutersreports that the crack, found on a test aircraft in California, prompted officials to ground the entire fleet of 51 jets as a...
View ArticleChief Of Dysfunctional F-35 Program Calls Out The Pentagon's Defense Contractors
AVALON, Australia, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The Pentagon program chief for the F-35 warplane slammed its commercial partners Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney on Wednesday, accusing them of trying to...
View ArticlePentagon Says Lockheed F-35 Flights Can Resume After Engine Trouble
The Pentagon has approved flights ofLockheed Martin's F-35 after the fleet was grounded with engine trouble, Tony Capaccio of Bloomberg reports.On February 22 F-35 flights were suspended following the...
View ArticleThe Pentagon Is So Fed Up With The F-35 Program It's Calling Out Contractors...
Shortly before the F-35 fleetwide grounding was lifted (as investigation found that cracked turbine blade affected only overused test plane and no redesign is needed), Reuters reported that during an...
View ArticleLeaked Pentagon Report: The F-35 Won't Stand A Chance In Aerial Combat
According to an article published by the Washington Times, the F-35A, the Conventional Take Off and Landing version of the Joint Strike Fighter, would be defeated in aerial combat because of its...
View ArticleGeneral In Charge Of F-35 Is Determined To Shake Things Up
If there's one thing the Pentagon is learning from the automatic budget cuts hitting defense spending, it's the grim realization that they don't have an unlimited amount of cash to burn.That...
View ArticleDespite High-Tech Sensors, F-35 Pilots Still Need To Visually Check Behind Them
In a recent post, we explained that a recently leaked Pentagon report highlighted the poor “out-of-cockpit visibility in the F-35A”, a shortcoming that would limit the pilots ability to see aerial...
View ArticleThe First 'Anti-Ship' Missile Has Been Fitted To The F-35
Unveiled on Nov. 29, 2012, the first Joint Strike Missile (JSM) developed for the F-35 by the Norwegian company Kongsberg and the Norwegian Ministry of Defence, was fitted to a test Joint Strike...
View ArticleBY THE NUMBERS: The Most Expensive Jet Ever Built
Thanks to the sequester, the Defense Department is now required to cut more than $40 billion this fiscal year out of its $549 billion budget. But one program that's unlikely to take a significant hit...
View ArticleRussia's Fourth-Gen Fighter Could Be The Best Thing On The Market
Of the jets in production that promise to take military fighters deep into the 21st century and beyond, the U.S. F-35, the Chinese J-20, and the Russian Sukhoi T-50 PAK FA are at the top of the heap....
View ArticleWe Have No Idea What The Chinese Could Do To America's Weapons
In plain English: F-35s can be hacked.The Washington Post recently got its hands on a classified part of a Pentagon report which outlined how Chinese hackers had compromised more than two dozen...
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