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F-35: How Fast Can This Stealth Fighter Actually Fly?
« on: May 26, 2024, 10:12:50 am »

F-35: How Fast Can This Stealth Fighter Actually Fly?
Story by Peter Suciu 

How Fast Can the F-35 Fly? The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is one of the most capable combat aircraft in service today.


It successfully combines stealth, sensor fusion, and network-enabled operations into a single airframe – yet, it is built in three variants to replace multiple aircraft including the U.S. Air Force F-16s and A-10s, U.S. Navy F/A-18s, U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harriers and F/A-18s, and U.K. Harrier GR.7s and Sea Harriers
 
F-35: Speed and Stealth
The F-35 is powered by a Pratt & Whitney F135, the most powerful fighter engine in the world. It produces 43,000 lbs of thrust and consists of a three-stage fan, a six-stage compressor, an annular combustor, a single-stage high-pressure turbine, and a two-stage low-pressure turbine.

The F135 Enhanced Engine Package (EEP) also incorporates next-generation adaptive propulsion technologies that offer increased thrust and fuel efficiency, as well as thermal management capacity.

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Re: F-35: How Fast Can This Stealth Fighter Actually Fly?
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2024, 10:14:01 am »
Will it be able to fly again with replacing the engines if it goes full power? :whistle:
abolitionist Frederick Douglass: “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.”