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The original JSF project was a competition between the Boeing X-32 and the Lockheed Martin X-35. Now the Joint Strike Fighter jet, the JSF, is being developed by Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company for the US Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps and the UK Royal Navy. The stealthy, supersonic multi-role fighter is to be designated the F-35. The JSF is being built in three variants: a conventional take-off and landing aircraft (CTOL) for the US Air Force; a carrier based variant (CV) for the US Navy; and a short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft for the US Marine Corps and the Royal Navy. A 70 – 90% commonality is required for all variants.  Early prototypes of the Joint Strike Fighter, JSF, were designated the X-32 and X-35.    The F-35B, a variant of the F-35 Lightning II, is the Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing (STOVL) aircraft. This takeoff and landing operation succeeds through a very innovative technology known as the shaft-driven lift fan propulsion system. Besides the propulsion system, the STOVL variant differs only slightly from the US Air Force variant. The short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) F-35B will replace the aging AV-8B Harrier STOVL attack jets (which have also proven increasingly difficult to support) of the US Marine Corps, as well as its F/A-18s. The F-35B will have a stealthy, belly-mounted 25 mm missionized gun pod and a combat radius of more than 450 NM- nearly two times that of legacy STOVL strike fighters. A shaft-driven lift fan, in combination with a vectoring rear exhaust nozzle, gives this fighter the ability to take off in short distances, accelerate to supersonic speeds in level flight, and land vertically. Thanks to the lift-fan system, the F-35B's total vertical lifting thrust is about 39,700 pounds (the aircraft weighs about 30,000 pounds)- more than 14,000 pounds greater than the engine alone would produce without the lift fan. The F-35B will be the world's first operational supersonic STOVL aircraft. The F-35B is similar in size to the Air Force F-35A, trading fuel volume for vertical flight systems. Like the AV-8 Harrier II, guns will be carried in a ventral pod. Vertical flight is by far the riskiest, and in the end, a decisive factor in design.

Click here to see the predessor of the F-35 Lightning II Jet Fighters, the P-38 Lightning.

Terminology:

There is no clear industry standard definition for RTF, PNP, ARF,RXR, KIT, etc. Every manufacturer makes up thier own difinitions.

The generally accepted definitions are:

KIT means that you get all of the components of the plane, i.e.: fuselage, wings, tail, landing gear, even ductedfan, etc, prebuilt but not pre-assembled; No any electronic parts are included.

RTF(Ready To Fly) means that you get the complete playable model which includes everything including electronic parts—equipped model itself and RC transceiver, battery and so on, by which you can play after you slghtly assemble it .

RXR means that you get the RTF excepting RC transceiver.

ARF and PNP means that you get the RTF excepting RC transceiver as well as Battery.

Lockheed Stealth
Bill Sweetman. This in-depth and unprecedented examination of Lockheed's stealth  program explains how Skunk Works designers and engineers minimize and even eliminate radar, thermal, and acoustic signatures in military aircraft. Illustrated with  photos from the company's archives and private collections, the story begins with  the origins of stealth in 1974 and continues through to the latest X-35 program. 168 pgs., 150 color and 50 B&W photos, 10"x 10", hdbd.

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