{"id":370376,"date":"2026-02-17T04:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-fast-f-35-lightning-ii-fly\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T04:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:00:17","slug":"this-is-how-fast-the-f-35-lightning-ii-can-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=370376","title":{"rendered":"This Is How Fast The F\u201135 Lightning II Can Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3540409\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/lockheed-martin\/\"  >Lockheed Martin<\/a><\/span> F-35 Lightning II is not just a stealthy sensor node with wings attached, but it is also a supersonic fighter built to sprint when the mission demands it. The number most people cite is the aircraft&#8217;s maximum speed of around Mach 1.6, but that headline figure hides the realities of how jets actually fly. The aircraft&#8217;s top speed changes with altitude and outside air temperature, and it changes depending on the kind of munitions payload the aircraft has with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aircraft offers exceptional high-speed capabilities.<\/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":[396,748,627,412,240,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-35","category-lockheed-martin","category-military","category-north-america","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370376","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=370376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370377,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370376\/revisions\/370377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}