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F-35B Stealth Fighter Releases Meteor Long-Range Missile From Its Internal Bay for the First Time
An inert Meteor separated from an F-35B internal weapons bay on October 7, 2026, at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, opening a…
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Lockheed Martin Wins $43.7M to Upgrade F-35 Reprogramming Labs That Build the Jet’s Threat Library
NAVAIR has awarded Lockheed Martin a $43.7 million no-bid modification to upgrade operating systems in the F-35 reprogramming labs at Eglin Air…
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Poland’s 10th F-35A Stealth Fighter Lands on NATO’s Eastern Flank as Italy Takes Over Assembly
Poland’s defense ministry confirmed on October 27 that tail 3518, the tenth F-35A Husarz to land in Poland and the second assembled…
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US Navy Taps Lockheed Martin to Integrate F135 Engine Core Upgrade and New F-35 Cooling System
Lockheed Martin gets 50,000 more labor hours to integrate Pratt & Whitney’s F135 Engine Core Upgrade into the F-35 and push a…
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USAF Pushes GBU-53/B StormBreaker Life Cycle Support to $950M for Smart Bomb That Hits Moving Targets
The Air Force has added $350 million to Raytheon’s StormBreaker life cycle support contract, lifting its ceiling to $950 million through 2030…
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American L3Harris Delivers 1,000 F-35 TR-3 Avionics Sets as Jets Await Combat Clearance
L3Harris has passed 1,000 shipsets each of two core F-35 TR-3 avionics units, the PCD-EU and Aircraft Memory System. The hardware is…
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Tailored F-35 Variant for Unnamed Foreign Buyer Moves Into Integration Through 2030
An $18.8 million NAVAIR modification moves a tailored F-35 variant for an unnamed foreign buyer into integration through December 2030, extending a…
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BAE Systems to Build F-35 Electronic Warfare Suites for Lots 20-22
Lockheed Martin has contracted BAE Systems to build AN/ASQ-239 electronic warfare suites for F-35 Lots 20 through 22 and to supply retrofit…
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APG-85 Radar Parts Ordered for 67 F-35s as Marines Accept Radarless Jets
Northrop Grumman received up to $123.8 million in long-lead funding for 67 production APG-85 radars, but the award buys parts rather than…