The NUT and the NASUWT have already announced joint strike plans over pay, pensions and workload.
All versions of the Joint Strike Fighter have had a number of deficiencies identified.
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For instance, all four units have some role on the F-35 joint strike fighter.
Moreover, the US seems to be torpedoing Israel's acquisition of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Its request to purchase a hundred F-35 Joint Strike Fighters faced little serious opposition.
The RAF's newest stealth aircraft, the Joint Strike Fighter, will be based in Norfolk, the defence secretary has revealed.
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is the most expensive weapons program the U.S. Department of Defense is currently funding.
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The Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) F-35 fifth-generation aircraft could possibly provide such flexibility.
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As for the Joint Strike Fighter, it is geared more for ground attacks and is far less sophisticated than the F-22.
He added that virtual intruders have previously tried to extract files related to missile tracking systems and the Joint Strike Fighter.
The latter would, the Navy hopes, be the jump-jet variant of the future Joint Strike Fighter that America is currently developing.
Some of its marquee military aircraft include the F-35 joint strike fighter, F-16 fighter, F-22 Raptor stealth fighter and the C-130J Hercules airlifter.
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Now UTC gets less than a fifth of its revenue from military aviation, including Sikorsky helicopters and engines for the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
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Under Gates, Pentagon constraints on Israeli technology additions to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighters nearly forced Israel to cancel its plans to purchase the aircraft.
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The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is another programme that looks vulnerable.
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We have no details on numbers of joint strike fighters and Typhoon Tranche 3B aircraft which leaves workforces across the UK feeling uncertain about their futures.
They would carry short-take-off and vertical-landing versions of the Joint Strike Fighter, stealthy planes that are being developed jointly with America to replace the Harrier jump-jets.
So Boeing is left as the only bidder for a defence contract second only to the enormous Joint Strike Fighter contract won by Lockheed Martin in 2001.
And the services together want 2, 978 more Joint Strike Fighters.
Programs he has gone after in the past include agricultural subsidies, defense programs such as C-17 military transport planes, and an alternate engine for the Pentagon's Joint Strike Fighter.
It is no coincidence that in the same remarks where Secretary Gates recommended killing the vehicle, he also threatened to cancel the Marine version of the joint strike fighter.
So they are buying a version of the next-generation joint strike fighter that can take off and land vertically, eliminating the need for long runways or aircraft carrier catapults.
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The RAF has reluctantly put forward options to cut its fleet of fast jets - Tornadoes or Harriers - in the hope that they will get the new Joint Strike Fighter instead.
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The Pentagon has placed so many draconian restrictions on its purchase of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and raised the price so high, that it makes little strategic or economic sense to purchase it.
The previous Labour government had placed orders for two new aircraft carriers to be equipped with the F-35B variant of the American-built joint strike fighter (JSF), which is capable of short take-off and vertical landing.
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Hagel also suggested that the Pentagon's five-year budget plan continues to plan for additional F-22 Raptor fighter jets and F-35 Joint Strike Fighters in the region, along with a fourth fast-attack submarine deployed to Guam.
Europe's firms can help themselves by forming closer links with their American counterparts (as British Aerospace has done by co-operating with Lockheed Martin on a new scout vehicle and on America's new Joint Strike Fighter).
Critics carp that the plane is unneeded in a post-Cold War world and that we should, instead, only upgrade the F-15 and F-16 and wait for the proposed Joint Strike Fighter aircraft that's coming several years hence.
However, it decided to acquire 12 new Growlers instead to avoid taking any of the existing Super Hornets out of action, and "to assure Australia's air combat capability during the transition period to the Joint Strike Fighter".
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