{"id":241288,"date":"2025-06-25T04:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-many-f-35-lightning-11s-built\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T04:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T18:00:17","slug":"how-many-f-35-lightning-iis-were-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=241288","title":{"rendered":"How Many F-35 Lightning IIs Were Built?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lockheed Martin <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-35\/\"  >F-35<\/a><\/span> Lightning II is &#8220;the&#8221; Western fifth-generation fighter jet. It is widely considered the most advanced and most capable fighter jet flying today and is by far the most produced and most popular fifth-generation fighter jet in service. The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2029246\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/usaf-ngad-not-f-22-raptor-replacement\/\" >F-22 Raptor is an advanced air dominance fighter jet<\/a><\/span> that is considered the best in that role. However, only 187 production units were delivered, and it was never exported. It is only operated by the US <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"1835\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-force\/\"  >Air Force<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 1,200 F-35s have likely been delivered, with thousands more expected to be built in the years ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,748,628,627,17195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-35","category-fighter-jets","category-lockheed-martin","category-middle-east-conflict"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241289,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241288\/revisions\/241289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}