WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin says it delivered 191 F-35 stealth fighters in 2025, a record for the program facilitated by a backlog of jets held in storage.
The delivery total far surpassed the 110 copies of the tri-variant stealth fighter handed over in 2024, following a year-long pause in accepting new jets that was first reported by Breaking Defense. Deliveries of jets with an upgrade dubbed TR-3 resumed in July of last year, but the F-35 Joint Program Office has limited those aircraft to training and has not yet declared them combat capable.
Lockheed says the company can produce 156 jets annually, but it’s not clear exactly how many of the 191 deliveries consisted of jets caught up in the TR-3 backlog — which reportedly reached around 110 aircraft at its peak….
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