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On Tuesday, December 17, 2024, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program office announced on social media that Lockheed Martin delivered the 100th production F-35C Lightning II airborne multi-role aircraft to the U.S. Department of Defense.
This variant is ordered exclusively by the US Department of Defense for the Navy and Marine Corps. Currently, 273 are planned for delivery to the US Navy and 67 to the US Navy, respectively. Aircraft from both branches of the US armed forces are deployed on aircraft carriers as part of the Tactical Aviation Integration (TAI) initiative. On November 11 of this year, US Central Command reported that aircraft from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln attacked Yemeni Houthi targets on November 9 and 10. US Marine Corps F-35Cs made their air strike debut.
On November 13, 2023, the US Navy’s China Lake Armament Test Center released information on discussions with Lockheed Martin regarding the integration and testing of new air-to-air weapons destined for the F-35C: the AGM-158 JASSM, AGM-158C LRASM, and AGM-anti-tank guided missiles. missiles 114 Hellfire and AGM-179 JAGM. The first photos of the flight with LRASM were published on September 24 of this year.
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