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Boeing’s X-32 Stealth Fighter Had ‘Major Technical Flaws’

Key Points and Summary - Boeing's X-32 experimental stealth fighter lost the Joint Strike Fighter competition to what would become the F-35 due to several critical weaknesses. -Its short-takeoff and ...
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The Boeing ‘F-32’ Stealth Fighter Still Haunts the U.S. Military

Key Points and Summary - Boeing’s X-32 (or what would have been the F-32) lost the Joint Strike Fighter competition to Lockheed’s X-35 (now F-35) for five key reasons. -Its radical direct-lift ...
Aviation Week

Strike one for JSF

Jon Lake looks at Lockheed Martin's Joint Strike Fighter and its role in the region's defence. Turkey has become progressively more important to the joint strike fighter (JSF) programme, which remains ...
Aviation Week

GAO reports concerns over JSF schedule, costs

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program has made strong strides by delivering and flying the first developmental aircraft, a new U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report says, but there ...
The National Interest

F-35B to Take-off and Land on British and Japanese Warships in New War Game

As the product of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, the F-35 platform was conceptualized to fulfill the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s advanced short take-off/vertical landing ...