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F-35 Distributed Mission Training Coming in 2019

By Woodrow Bellamy III

Friday, November 2nd, 2018

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Pilots training to fly the F-35 Lightning II will soon have the ability to virtually fly with up to 12 flight simulators networked together across different bases and training facilities as if they were flying within a fully integrated environment. Lockheed Martin [LMT] describes the concept as distributed mission training (DMT), which will be a generational leap in fighter jet flight simulator training technology compared to what’s available to F-35 pilots today. Starting in 2019, F-35 pilots training at the…

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