{"id":365159,"date":"2026-02-09T21:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/lockheed-martin-deliver-record-f-35-last-year-how\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:00:17","slug":"lockheed-martin-delivered-a-record-number-of-f-35s-last-year-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=365159","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin Delivered A Record Number Of F-35s Last Year: Here\u2019s How"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of around 500 fighter jets delivered globally in 2025, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2050341\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-many-f-35s-lockheed-martin-delivered\/\" >191 of them were Lockheed Martin&#8217;s F-35 Lightning II<\/a><\/span> fighter jets. After years of delays and cost overruns (like most fighter jet programs), it is now taking its place as a mainstay fighter jet of the United States and its allies. The record 2025 deliveries were driven by Lockheed finally clearing a major backlog caused by issues with its TR-3 upgrade, meaning that deliveries will likely dip in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clearing a massive TR-3-induced backlog allowed Lockheed to ship a record number of F-35s, although that may not be replicated in 2026.<\/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":[396,748,628,627,16569,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-35","category-fighter-jets","category-lockheed-martin","category-manufacturers","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365159","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=365159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365162,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365159\/revisions\/365162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}