F-35 Lightning II
Country: 
United StatesManufacturer: Lockheed Martin
«F-35A»
Multirole fighterUnited States2015In service
The F-35 Lightning II is a single-engine multirole fighter family developed by Lockheed Martin. Its A, B and C variants serve conventional airfields, short take-off and vertical landing operations, and aircraft carriers respectively.
2015 is the F-35B family IOC. Meteor and JASSM are not claimed as baseline operational fits here; integration standards differ and continue to evolve.
Multirole fighter // F-35AID — f-35-lightning-ii
United States · Lockheed Martin
Illustration: F-35A conventional take-off and landing variant
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Identity
- Designation
- F-35 Lightning II
- Alias
- F-35A
- Manufacturer
- Lockheed Martin
- Country
- United States
- Category
- Multirole fighter
- Figures refer to
- F-35A
Production & service
- Introduced
- 2015
- Status
- In service
- Units produced
- —
Specifications
- MTOW
- —
- Crew
- 1
- Armament
- —
- Sensors
- —
- Engines
- —
- Hardpoints
- —
- Empty weight
- —
- Max speed
- —
- Combat radius
- —
- Length / wingspan / height
- 15.7 m / 10.7 m / —
- Service ceiling
- —
Historical profile
The US Marine Corps declared F-35B initial operational capability in 2015. The F-35A followed in 2016 and the F-35C in 2019. Dimensions here refer to F-35A, not to the other family variants.
Variants
F-35AF-35BF-35C
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