Lockheed Martin (1996): F-22 / F-35 politics

Lockheed Martin is what US defence consolidation looked like after 1991 -- a letterhead that still carries a California shop myth. Vegas, Electras, then war transports and the postwar Skunk Works. The F-104's German crash scandal and the C-130's endless career are two morals in one catalogue.

U-2 and SR-71 are reconnaissance politics, not flight manuals. Glenn Martin's bombers; Titan as an ICBM and a space launcher; a Denver-and-Maryland industrial geography. See the ICBM page for the missile type; this page for the contractor. The merger, the F-22 and F-35 as political objects, and a services-and-C4ISR expansion. Hearings on cost and concurrency are the public file.

No classified performance table belongs here. ROK F-16 and F-35 buys are dated procurement stories -- offset, industrial participation, alliance signalling. Not a live ROK ORBAT and not an advertising page. The US letterhead behind several air and missile stories in this atlas. F-104, F-22, F-35 as type-history cousins -- not spec sheets.