The aboriginal assembly archetypal Lockheed F-35 Lightning II Collective Strike Fighter fabricated it's beginning flight on the 15th of December 2006, it is a collective activity of several nations with the US as the capital contributor and the UK as the abutting largest. The F-35 Lightning II architecture incorporates stealth technology although not to the aforementioned admeasurement as the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk while application the achievement of absolute non-stealth "state of the art" fighters.
Two of the capital companies complex in the activity are Lockheed Martin Aeronautics and BAE Systems, this has been reflected in the F-35's name Lightning II, Lockheed congenital and advised the WWII Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter and English Electric, a aggregation now congenital aural BAE Systems, congenital and advised the Cold War-era English Electric Lightning fighter.
