Do you want to access to this and other private contents?
Log in if you are a subscriber or click here to request service

UK report: F-35 airplanes unable to land vertically on to a carrier in hot and humid weather conditions

London, United Kingdom - "The fighter obtained excellent results", Lockheed Martin answers back

The actual capabilities of the F-35 are once again questioned by an official document: the National Audit Office (NAO) of the United Kingdom released a detailed report with which it underlines alleged problems of the state-of-the-art fighter manufactured by Lockheed Martin, relative to the vertical landing on aircraft carriers. "The Department of Defence -the agency communicates- will have to actively...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1152084
Rome, Italy, 05/13/2013 18:58
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

Similar

Civil aviationItaly. Grottaglie factory (2): Leonardo's relaunch plan

Cingolani (ceo): "Diversifying production and technologies, we are speeding things up"

To diversify production and technologies. These are the two cornerstones around which the plan of the Italian Leonardo Group, specialized in the aerospace and defense sectors, would relaunch and develop... more

DefenseTokyo and Seoul are talking about defense again

Communication line between the two countries reopened after nine years

Relations between Seoul and Tokyo have been unfrozen. In fact, Japan and South Korea have returned to jointly talking about defense. This hasn't happened since August 2015. Nine years after the last meeting,... more

DefenseBelarus would maintain Russian helicopters

This is what Ukraine's Center for National Resistance reveals

A Belarusian factory is reportedly repairing Russian military helicopters used in the war against Ukraine. This would be a maintenance center located at the Baranavichy base, where repair and overhaul... more