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Navy/USMC

Lockheed Martin Introduces ‘Sidekick’ Weapons Rack for F-35C

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, May 1st, 2019

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Lockheed Martin Introduces ‘Sidekick’ Weapons Rack for F-35C

Two F-35C Lightning II aircraft from Naval Air Station Lemoore fly in formation over the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range after completing a training mission (U.S. Navy Photo)

Lockheed Martin [LMT] said on May 1 that it has developed a new weapons rack, called "Sidekick," to increase the internal weapons carrying capacity of the aircraft carrier variant of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), the F-35C, which achieved Initial Operational Capability (IOC) in February. "Lockheed Martin has gone out on its own and developed a new weapons rack to incorporate into our internal bays," Tony "Brick" Wilson, a Lockheed Martin F-35 test pilot, told reporters at the company's Global…

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