The release was the first time for any version of the F-35 to conduct an airborne weapon separation, as well as the first from an internal weapons bay for a fighter aircraft designated for the U.S ...

even with its truncated weapons bay compared to its A and C model cousins, was supposed to be able to carry eight SDB IIs internally. Because the F-35 has to carry its weapon internally to retain ...

HAWC apparently is too big to fit in the F-35’s internal weapons bay. To minimize the F-35’s radar signature, Lockheed designed the plane to carry weapons internally. But the fighter’s dense ...

As flight testing continues, Lockheed Martin released new images of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter ... variant with the weapon bay doors open. Even if this is not the first time the aircraft ...

A Marine Corps F-35B caught ... because of a weapons bay defect that military officials knew about and were already working to fix. Air Force Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, the F-35 program ...

On Oct. 16, a conventional take off and landing (CTOL) version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter ... China Lake test range from the left internal weapons bay. The F-35A is designed to carry ...

Norwegian defense firm Kongsberg has been developing JSM since 2011 as an air-to-surface weapon that is not only stealthy but also designed to be launched from the internal bomb bay of the F-35 (where ...

Overall, speaking at a Lockheed event, Wilson explained that the Side Kick initiative will bring an ability for the F-35 to carry six air-to-air weapons in its internal bay -- as opposed to four.

One of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighters has flown for the first time with weapons in its internal bays. Aircraft AA-1 was flown Sept. 16 with an AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to ...

Boeing’s X-32 was a serious contender to win the Pentagon’s massive Joint Strike Fighter contract. Designed with ...

The F-35 is compatible with several weapon layouts to accommodate a ... all loaded into the F-35’s internal armaments bay. As the name implies, stealth loadouts are designed to minimize radar ...

To enhance its stealth characteristics, the F-35 uses an internal weapons bay, rather than external hard points that drastically increase an aircraft’s radar cross-section. While the internal ...