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Lockheed Martin has announced they have successfully delivered the 500th Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS) for the F-35 program.
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The F-35 program office also announced that all the units were all delivered "on time or ahead of schedule", to support aircraft production and sustainment requirements.
"We are proud to bring superior capabilities to the F-35," said Michael Williamson, vice president of sensors and global sustainment at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control.
"We know how important this capability is to the warfighter and we continue to invest in our Advanced EOTS upgrade, which will bring extended capabilities to the cockpit."
The F-35 EOTS is the first sensor to combine forward-looking infrared and infrared search and track functionality "to provide F-35 pilots with precise air-to-air and air-to-ground targeting capability", as well as allowing aircrews to identify areas of interest, perform reconnaissance and precisely deliver laser and GPS-guided weapons.
Lockheed Martin also announced it has delivered the 4,000th Distributed Aperture System (DAS) Window for the F-35 Lightning II.
The DAS Window set consists of six polycrystalline silicon, low-observable, infrared transparent windows for electro-optical (EO) DAS sensors on the F-35, with each shipset of windows enabling the EODAS sensor to provide threat detection and 360-degree situational awareness to the pilot.
