{"id":225259,"date":"2026-03-19T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/kongsberg-awarded-f-35-lots-20-22-production-contract\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T07:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:55:13","slug":"kongsberg-awarded-f-35-lots-20-22-production-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/kongsberg-awarded-f-35-lots-20-22-production-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Kongsberg awarded F-35 Lots 20-22 production contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforce-technology.com\/news\/kongsberg-awarded-f-35-lots-20-22-production-contract\/\">Kongsberg awarded F-35 Lots 20-22 production contract<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforce-technology.com\/news\/kongsberg-awarded-f-35-lots-20-22-production-contract\/\">https:\/\/www.airforce-technology.com\/news\/kongsberg-awarded-f-35-lots-20-22-production-contract\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-19 07:36:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.airforce-technology.com\">www.airforce-technology.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                    A Royal Norwegian Air Force F-35A. Credit: Lockheed Martin<\/p>\n<p class=\"drop-cap\">Norway\u2019s Kongsberg Defence &#038; Aerospace has signed an agreement with US defence prime Lockheed Martin with an expected value of NOK 2bn ($208.6m) for deliveries of components to the F-35 fighter programme.<\/p>\n<p>Detailed in an 18 March release from Kongsberg, the agreement extends the company\u2019s ongoing production of F-35 components through to 2030, supporting all three variants of the F-35 fifth-generation stealth fighter.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.airforce-technology.com\/wp-content\/themes\/goodlife-wp-B2B\/assets\/images\/GMS-logo.svg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<h4> Discover B2B Marketing That Performs <\/h4>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCombine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFind out more <span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The deliveries to production Lots 20\u201322 of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter programme include aircraft rudders, vertical leading edges and main landing gear closeout panels, produced at Kongsberg\u2019s manufacturing facilities in Norway.<\/p>\n<p>Norway is one of the leading operators of the F-35 platform and was the first to complete the acquisition of its intended order, receiving the last of its 52 F-35A fighters in 2025. The fighters are stationed at \u00d8rland and Evenes air bases.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Norwegian Air Force operates the so-called conventional F-35A variant, rather than the vertical-landing \u2018B\u2019 model operated by the US Marine Corps, UK Royal Navy, and RAF, or the \u2018C\u2019 variant, which is dedicated to naval operations with the US Navy.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-norway-still-benefitting-from-f-35-programme\">Norway still benefitting from F-35 programme<\/h2>\n<p>Despite Norway completing its planned programme of record for F-35&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforce-technology.com\/news\/kongsberg-awarded-f-35-lots-20-22-production-contract\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kongsberg awarded F-35 Lots 20-22 production contract https:\/\/www.airforce-technology.com\/news\/kongsberg-awarded-f-35-lots-20-22-production-contract\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-19 07:36:00 Source Domain: www.airforce-technology.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.airforce-technology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/03\/Lockheed_Royal_Norwegian_Air_Force_F_35A.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225261,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225259\/revisions\/225261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}