Lockheed ASTOVL, JAST, JSF projects

[pedrospe]

And no F-35s on 11 LHA/Ds (eventually). None on Japanese, South Korean, and others' carriers. IMO the trade was worth it.

i understand that, but if you compare the number of STOVL F-35 bought and the conventional variants for the Air force and Navy, and other countries that bought the F-35, the STOVL variant was bought in smaller numbers, Lockheed is gaining most of it's money on the sales for the F-35, on the conventional variants, mostly the simpler one, the F-35A.

 

[VTOLicious]

Imho the F-35 as a whole is indeed a game changer in capability... The problem in the US is rather that F-22 production was stopped at 187 and a "stealthy" F-14 successor wasn't introduced either. The result is the capability gap the F-35 cannot fill (and was never intended to).

 

[hesham]

enjoy

From Lotnictwo 1991-11/12.

 

[Sundog]

From Lotnictwo 1991-11/12.

I think that's a translated article straight out of Aerospace America. I think the pics are the exact same as was in the AA (AIAA Publication) that I read in school back in the eighties.

 

[raptor82]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1729633560544383265

View: https://twitter.com/thef35/status/1729633560544383265?s=46&t=5THFve96Abhx7VANdlTzrg

F-35: From Design to Delivery

www.f35.com

Config.191 （1994）

 

[ScrutorAudax]

From "F-35 Air Vehicle Configuration Development" (2018 Counts et al.):

 

[Dew]

Nice collection from GRC via NARA (same series as contact sheet in #14) :

 

[Dew]

And the other series:

 

[donnage99]

I see the j-20 or natf-23 or this and I wonder why the angle in which the canards sit are not same with the horizontal plane of the wings. Wouldn't this introduce an additional RCS spike?