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While a pilot engaging an enemy in armed conflict is a defining moment, air power is more than just aircraft. Air power includes actual aircraft, training, focused logistics, munitions, and even targeting and navigation systems - all the interconnected pieces necessary to complete their missions successfully. Lockheed Martin is a global leader in the design, manufacture and support of military aircraft. The goal: To provide a full spectrum of aeronautical resources to allow the U.S. and its allies to conduct air operations anywhere, any time.
Lockheed Martin's air power leadership is earned through relentless research and development of high-performance combat, air mobility and reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft. We also provide world-class training, focused logistics support, and advanced targeting and navigation technologies to enable the right people with the right skills to be in the right place at the right time with the right information and the right munitions to accomplish their missions.
As a premier systems integrator, Lockheed Martin puts it all together to create an integrated system of system where that the value of the whole is greater than sum of its parts.
Lockheed Martin air power capabilities include:
Advanced Development
 With a passion for invention, Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works has been synonymous with advanced development, record-breaking aircraft, stealth, lift fan technology, and other cutting-edge innovations for the past 60 years.
Advanced DevelopmentPrograms (ADP, Skunk Works®) is responsible for the integrated "front-end" development of new and innovative technologies, new product and derivative programs in support of air power as well as the integration of air and space assets. Lockheed Martin is at heart a company of inventors. We are not satisfied unless we devise a new solution -- something smarter, something better. That way of thinking is also core to the men and women of Skunk Works.
Air Mobility
Lockheed Martin's legacy of producing airlift platforms spans half a century. Lockheed Martin is the pre-eminent designer, developer and producer of airlift aircraft in the world. No area of air mobility need has been untouched by the company's innovative design and production of aircraft for both tactical and strategic operations.
Whether loading tanks onto the massive C-5 Galaxy strategic airlifter, or dropping paratroops in the dead of night over hostile territory from a C-130 Hercules, Lockheed Martin has always known the special needs and requirements of air mobility customers worldwide.
Combat Aircraft
Lockheed Martin's combat aircraft respond decisively to the evolving and complex demands of modern combat situations. Our aircraft are the most versatile fighters in the world, excelling even in the most demanding of multi-role missions. We have a proven lineage of air power dominance, from the experienced F-16, to the F-22, and F-35 next-generation fighters.
Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
During times of conflict, dominating the information spectrum has become as critical as occupying the land or controlling the air. For over 40 years, Lockheed Martin has integrated the advanced technical tools of airborne reconnaissance into U.S. and international aircraft.
Lockheed Martin provides high altitude airborne reconnaissance that includes state of the art imagery sensors that collect intelligence in all weather and light conditions. This enables the warfighter to download and transmit data in real time via satellite to multiple ground stations and other manned and unmanned aircraft around the world.
Logistics
In the heat of a battle -- or even during training -- military units must have equipment they can trust will work without failure and the right parts for maintenance and service. Lives are on the line. Lockheed Martin provides focused logistics support that protects lives and enhances military performance by ensuring that aircraft are mission ready -- whenever, wherever they are needed.
Maintenance & Modification
Lockheed Martin's world-class maintenance and modification support ensures that our customers' aircraft are the best they can be -- operating at optimum capacity with the most-advanced technology available. Anything less puts their crews and their missions in jeopardy.
Simulation & Training
The customer's need for readiness is our business. Flight crews and maintainers must move from training to the real world without hesitation. To meet this need, Lockheed Martin's end-to-end training solutions provide experience in the live, virtual, and constructive domains.
Lockheed Martin offers an integrated approach to delivering total training solutions, creating products that meet specific customer needs. Our flight and maintenance training systems are world leaders in training large, widely dispersed student populations operating diverse fleets of aircraft.
Stealth
Stealth is designed into the next generation aircraft — the F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Lightning II. And Lockheed Martin has designed the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) to be stealthy. Stealth was also an important element of the U-2 and SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft.
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