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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...