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2 days agoLockheed Martin says the US is interested in its '5th-generation-plus' F-35 that uses tech from its failed 6th-generation bid
CEO Jim Taiclet said on Thursday that there is "a very active engagement at an extremely high level with the Department of Defense" about the upgraded F-35, and that "I expect it will be taken to the White House sometime soon, hopefully, to consider this kind of concept." Speaking at Morgan Stanley's Laguna Conference, he said there is no contract yet, but that if the jet is kept under the Pentagon's current approved plan, the souped-up F-35 would, over time, get near sixth-generation capability.
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