Fighter and multirole · Air · Lockheed Martin · United States
Wikidata: American stealth multirole fighter aircraft
- Operators among the 24
- 10
- Active, across the 24
- 359
- On order, across the 24
- 122
- In service since
- 2015
Catalogue entry
- Designation
- F-35
- First flight or launch
- 2006
- In service
- 2015
- Retired
- –
- Generation
- 5
- Unit cost (US dollars)
- not published in Wikidata
- Manufacturers
- Lockheed Martin, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
- Also seen as
- Naval aircraft and helicopters, Strike and bomber
- Wikidata classes
- aircraft family
- Identifiers
- Q29261 · factbase.org/sys/VB1MYA8Q67 · Wikipedia
Dates, makers and classes from Wikidata (CC0); specifications stop at what Wikipedia and the manufacturer publish.
Operators
Each of the 24 nations that holds the platform, with its active count (variants summed). A nation that holds it with no published count shows no bar.
72
57
48
47
47
45
40
2
1
0
| Nation | Active | Reserve | On order | Variants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 72 | |||
| Italy | 57 | Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II F-35A, Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II F-35B | ||
| Israel | 48 | Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II F-35I | ||
| United Kingdom | 47 | |||
| Japan | 47 | |||
| United States | 45 | F-35C Lightning II | ||
| South Korea | 40 | Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II F-35A | ||
| Canada | 2 | 88 | Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II CF-35A, F-35A block 4 | |
| Germany | 1 | 34 | Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II F-35A | |
| Saudi Arabia | – | Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II F-35A |
Transfers
Deliveries recorded by the SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, by year, to every recipient. Derived figures only; source: SIPRI Arms Transfers Database.
Recipients: Australia (72), Norway (52), Netherlands (48), Japan (48), Israel (45), South Korea (40), Italy (36), Denmark (21), Belgium (12), Poland (7).
Related platforms
- Derived from: Q1867599
- Co-production: Lockheed Martin
- Co-production: BAE Systems · rear fuselage and tail (tier 1)
- Co-production: Northrop Grumman · centre fuselage (tier 1)
- Co-production: Leonardo · final assembly and check-out, Cameri (licensed assembly for ITA and NLD)
- Licensed production: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries · final assembly and check-out for JPN
- Sanctioned: · Türkiye · 2019 · removed from the programme by the United States after the S-400 purchase
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