Primary Function:� Fighter, air-dominance
Wingspan:� 44 feet, 6 inches
Length:� 62 feet, 1 inch
Height:� 16 feet, 5 inches
Powerplant:� Two Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 engines capable of supercruise and thrust vectoring
Speed: � Mach 1.8 (supercruise: Mach 1.5)
Armament:� Two AIM-9 Sidewinders; six AIM-120C Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM); one 20mm Gatling gun; and two, 1,000-pound Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM).
Crew:� One
Builder:� Boeing and Lockheed Martin Corp.
Major Subcontractors (partial list):� Northrop Grumman, Texas Instruments, Kidde-Graviner Ltd., Allied-Signal Aerospace, Hughes Radar Systems, Harris, Fairchild Defense, GEC Avionics, Lockheed Sanders, Kaiser Electronics, Digital Equipment Corp., Rosemount Aerospace, Curtiss-Wright Flight Systems, Dowty Decoto, EDO Corp., Lear Astronics Corp., Parker-Hannifin Corp., Simmonds Precision, Sterer Engineering, TRW, XAR, Motorola, Hamilton Standard, Sanders/GE Joint Venture, Menasco Aerospace.
Posted: 08/01/2004