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F-35B JSF USMC Demonstrator History:
The F-35B JSF is a short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) variant aircraft similar in size to the USAF’s F-35A, trading fuel volume for vertical flight systems. The F-35’s main power plant comes from Pratt & Whitney’s F119 or GE Rolls Royce fighter team’s F136, with the STOVL variant of the latter incorporating a Rolls-Royce Lift Fan module. Expected to be available beginning 2012, F-35B variant is intended to replace the later derivatives of the Harrier Jump Jet, the world’s first operational short takeoff / vertical landing fighter/ground attack aircraft. The RAF and Royal Navy will use this variant to replace the Harrier GR7/GR9s. The US Marine Corps will use the F-35B to replace both its AV-8B Harrier II and F/A-18 Hornet fighters. The F-35B will have a stealthy, belly-mounted 25 mm missionized gun pod and a combat radius of more than 450 NM- nearly two times that of legacy STOVL strike fighters. A shaft-driven lift fan, in combination with a vectoring rear exhaust nozzle, gives this fighter the ability to take off in short distances, accelerate to supersonic speeds in level flight, and land vertically. Thanks to the lift-fan system, the F-35B's total vertical lifting thrust is about 39,700 pounds (the aircraft weighs about 30,000 pounds)- more than 14,000 pounds greater than the engine alone would produce without the lift fan. The F-35B will be the world's first operational supersonic STOVL aircraft.
Lockheed Martin is scheduled to make its first delivery of F-35Bs to the Marine Corps in 2012. That is if Lockheed does not experience further redesigns, as it was forced to do three years ago.
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