"I believe one way Lockheed Martin can meet its goals is by employing two strategies," he says. One is stretching the airframe to add fuel and improve fineness ratio, as well as adding lifting area with a canard or more wing area. The second is to use thrust vectoring to eliminate the tail.
Starting in April, Cummings developed three conceptual designs for evolved F-35s based on past Lockheed experimental projects; the new designs offer short-, medium- and long-term improvements in performance and increased stealth.
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