Three Types of F35 Fighter Jet:
1. F-35A, conventional take off and landing (CTOL) variant.2. F-35B, short-take off and vertical-landing (STOVL) variant.
3. F-35C, carrier-based CATOBAR (CV) variant.
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Length: 51.4 ft (15.67 m)
- Wingspan: 35 ft (10.7 m)
- Height: 14.2 ft (4.33 m)
- Wing area: 460 ft² (42.7 m²)
- Empty weight: 29,300 lb (13,300 kg)
- Loaded weight: 49,540 lb (22,470 kg)
- Max takeoff weight: 70,000 lb (31,800 kg)
- Powerplant: 1 × Pratt & Whitney F135 afterburning turbofan
- Dry thrust: 28,000 lbf (125 kN)
- Thrust with afterburner: 43,000 lbf (191 kN)
- Internal fuel capacity: 18,480 lb (8,382 kg)
- Maximum speed: Mach 1.6+ (1,200 mph, 1,930 km/h)
- Range: 1,200 nmi (2,220 km) on internal fuel
- Combat radius: over 590 nmi (1,090 km) on internal fuel[274]
- Service ceiling: 60,000 ft (18,288 m)
- Rate of climb: classified (not publicly available)
- Wing loading: 91.4 lb/ft² (446 kg/m²)
- Thrust/weight:
- With full fuel: 0.87
- With 50% fuel: 1.07
- g-Limits: 9 g
- Missiles:
- Air-to-air missiles:
- AIM-120 AMRAAM
- AIM-132 ASRAAM
- AIM-9X Sidewinder
- IRIS-T
- MBDA Meteor (Pending further funding)
- JDRADM (after 2020)
- Air-to-surface missiles:
- AGM-154 JSOW
- AGM-158 JASSM
- Brimstone missile
- Joint Air-to-Ground Missile
- Anti-ship missiles:
- JSM
- Bombs:
- Mark 84, Mark 83 and Mark 82 GP bombs
- Mk.20 Rockeye II cluster bomb
- Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser capable
- Paveway-series laser-guided bombs
- Small Diameter Bomb (SDB)
- JDAM-series
- B61 nuclear bomb
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