Joint Strike Fighter Program X-32A and X-35B

Italeri 1/72. 

Description

THE BOX CONTAINS TWO MODELS

During the ‘90s  the United States Department of
Defense launched the JSF (Joint Strike Fighter) contest to assign the
production of a new 5th generation Multi-role combat aircraft. Boeing
participated to the contest with the concept demonstrator aircraft X-32
while Lockheed Martin presented its XF-35 prototype. The Boeing X-32 was
developed and realized around a large one piece carbon fiber composite
delta wing and characterized by the big size air intake placed under the
cockpit. The Lockheed Martin reply was based on the XF-35, using a lot
of technology and aerodynamic solutions already successfully adopted on
the fighter F-22 Raptor. For both concept demonstrator aircrafts were
developed several applications as the conventional take-off / landing
version and the STOVL (short take-off and vertical landing) version. On
2001  the Department of Defense announced that the Lockheed Martin X-35
won the JSF competition and from it the new F-35 Lightning II was born.