Let's Know About : F-35 Lightning II
A masterpiece of technology ? An over-powerful fighter plane? or just a big buzz about a project where approximatively 40 billion dollars have been invested ?
While surfing on the net i read a lot about a new fighter plane that was about to be launched , a plane that is about to revolutionize the world of fighter planes and military hardware .
And as fell in love with that fighter plane once i saw it on movies like Live Free or Die Hard , Superman Returns and Iron Man i decided to talk a bit about it so you could have an idea about the capacity the monster of the blue skies has .
let’s know about :
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II more commonly known as the F-35 is a single-seat, single-engine, military strike fighter, a multirole aircraft that can perform close air support, tactical bombing, and air defense missions. in two words, a hunting animal .
The F-35 comes in several models :
- F-35A, conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) variant.
- F-35B, short-takeoff and vertical-landing (STOVL) variant.
- F-35C, carrier-based CATOBAR (CV) variant.
The F-35 Lightning II is the direct result of the JSF program that was designed to replace the U.S. military’s F-16, A-10, F/A-18 and AV-8B tactical fighter aircraft. To keep development, production, and operating costs down, a common design was planned in three variants that share 80% of their parts.
A dream that the engineers could not achieve, since the costs of the development of this project have made it make it the most expensive military aircraft program in history.
Also one of the most important things about this aircraft is that While the United States is as we all know the primary customer and financial backer, countries like the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Turkey, Australia, Canada and Denmark have also contributed toward the development costs of this coming from hell plane 
I know that some of you dear readers would like to know more about the technical specifications of this powerful fighter plane , and this is why i invite you all to visit this website , where you’ll find everything you want about the F-35
Also i invite you all to watch this video that i found on YouTube where you can see the beast in action
Good stuff here – I’ve been a fighter plane fanatic for so long but was sad to hear the rumors that Congress is considering eliminating the F-35 project altogether and cutting down the production of their other beast, the F-22 Raptor.