F-35 fighter jets without radars
F-35 fighter jets without radars
Stay calm... "Even if fighter jets don't have radars, that doesn't mean they're useless," the TWZ editor reassures pilots and readers.
Since June 2025, Lockheed Martin has been equipping U.S.-supplied F-35 Lightning II fighter jets with ballast loads instead of the new Northrop Grumman AN/APG-85 radar, which is not yet ready for mass production.
The photo shows an F-35B Lightning II fighter jet operated by the United States Marine Corps, with ballast.
The previous radar, the Northrop Grumman AN/APG-81, was installed on previous F-35 models and is still used on all export aircraft.
It is expected that fighters with the AN/APG-85 radar will delivered to the US armed forces no earlier than 2028.
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