Rep. Rob Wittman told Breaking Defense that while he expected issues with the new APG-85 radar to eventually be resolved, in the interim the US military will be left with “lots of aircraft out there, ...
The supersonic fighter jet is designed to avoid detection by radar and other technologies.
Radar mountings in the nose of the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter are different for the current AN/APG-81 by Northrop Grumman and the future AN/APG-85 radar, also by Northrop Grumman–a difference which ...
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Why new F-35s are arriving combat-blind without their main radar

What does a fifth-generation fighter become when its primary radar is missing? For the F-35, the answer is not a failed ...
Iran developed air defence systems that use passive infrared sensors rather than radar to target aircraft like F-35A. This ...
According to reports, U.S. F-35 might have been delivered since June 2025 with a ballast in place of the new APG-85 radar which has been suffering from delays. These aircraft were planned to receive ...
An F-35 stealth fighter was reportedly damaged and forced to land after being hit by Iranian fire during a combat mission ...
A military aircraft does not just vanish into thin air. What it means when the word 'stealth' is coined with any military ...
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Examining a paradigm shift in air warfare.
The ongoing Iran vs Israel-US war is the first dense air-defence combat environment in which the F-35 has operated—and it is ...
On March 19, major US news agencies, as well as the US Central Command (CENTCOM), confirmed that a fifth-generation F-35 ...