A fifth-gen jet, built in our studio.
Modelled in Blender and finished as film. The HUD, the x-ray, the radar plot and the sensor sphere are drawn live over the footage as you scroll. This is the kind of interactive product film we build for defense and aerospace teams.
See through the skin.
An x-ray pass lifts the outer mold line away to show where the sensors and engine sit. On a real program page, each pin opens the spec, the supplier and the drawing.
43,000 pounds of push.
A single F135 turbofan: about 28,000 lbf dry, 43,000 lbf in afterburner. Lights up, rolls out, climbs through the cloud deck.
Small on the scope.
Aligned edges, buried engines and internal weapons are what make a stealth shape. The plot compares a conventional return with a low-observable one.
Six eyes. No blind spot.
The Distributed Aperture System stitches six infrared cameras into one sphere around the jet. The pilot can look down through the floor in the helmet display.
Carried inside.
Two internal bays with two stations each keep the shape clean. The doors open, a store drops, the motor lights and the doors close again in a few seconds.
Built for the mission. Built in a femtosecond.
Product films, configurators, capability statements and secure portals for primes and suppliers, all built by one studio.
F-35 Lightning II · Concept study
One airframe. Three variants. Built around its sensors.
Plate 01Climb on afterburner at duskConcept image rendered from our studio model. Not a photograph of a real aircraft.
01 The airframe
The F-35 Lightning II is a single-seat, single-engine stealth fighter, flown by the US services and a growing list of partner nations.
It comes in three versions that share most of their design: one for runways, one that can land vertically, and one for aircraft carriers. What sets it apart is less its speed than what it can see, and how much of that it can share.
This page is our study of how a program like it could be presented on the web. Every figure below is public. Every image is rendered from a model we built in our own studio.
- Top speed1.6MachWith a full internal weapons load
- Engine thrust43,000lbfPratt & Whitney F135, with afterburner
- Combat radius>590nmF-35A on internal fuel
- Max load factor9.0gF-35A. The B is rated 7.0 g, the C 7.5 g
02 Anatomy
Five parts worth a closer look.
Seen from below, with the left bay open and a missile just released. Scroll to step through the parts that matter.
1Nose sensors
2Intake
3Weapons bay
4Wing
5Engine nozzle
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Nose sensors
AN/APG-81 radar · AN/AAQ-40 EOTS
An electronically scanned radar sits behind the nose cone. Just below it, an infrared and laser targeting sensor is built flush into the skin, so it doesn't break the stealth shape the way a pod would.
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Intakes
Diverterless supersonic inlet
A shaped bump ahead of each intake pushes slow air aside, so the jet needs no separate splitter plate. Fewer parts, fewer edges for radar to catch.
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Weapons bay
2 bays · 4 internal stations
Weapons ride inside to keep the outline clean. The doors open, the store drops clear, the doors close. Inboard stations carry air-to-air missiles; outboard stations take heavier air-to-ground weapons.
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Wing
35 ft span · 43 ft on the F-35C
The A and B share one wing. The carrier F-35C has a larger, folding wing for slower, more controlled approaches to the deck.
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Engine
Pratt & Whitney F135
One engine, about 28,000 lbf dry and 43,000 lbf with afterburner. On the F-35B the rear nozzle swivels down to help the jet hover.
03 Plates
The studio model, photographed.
We modelled the airframe in Blender, lit it in the studio, then finished each render with an image model for real-looking paint, glass and air. These are concept images, not photographs of a real aircraft.
Plate 04Hangar, lights up 
Plate 05Banking over cloud, late sun 
Plate 06Store away, motor lit 
Plate 07Head-on pass 
Plate 08Close pass, tail and nozzle 
Plate 09Afterburner at dusk
04 Spec sheet
The numbers.
Figures are for the F-35A unless noted. They are rounded public figures and vary by production block.
| Parameter | Value | Unit | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Performance | |||
| Top speed | 1.6 | Mach | With a full internal weapons load1 |
| Combat radius | >590 | nm | On internal fuel, about 1,090 km1 |
| Range | >1,200 | nm | On internal fuel, about 2,200 km1 |
| Max load factor | 9.0 | g | F-35B 7.0 g, F-35C 7.5 g1 |
| Propulsion | |||
| Thrust, afterburner | 43,000 | lbf | Pratt & Whitney F135, engine rating3 |
| Thrust, dry | 28,000 | lbf | Installed figures are lower: about 40,000 and 25,000 lbf1 |
| Dimensions | |||
| Length | 51.4 | ft | 15.7 m1 |
| Wingspan | 35 | ft | 10.7 m. The F-35C spans 43 ft1 |
| Height | 14.4 | ft | 4.38 m1 |
| Wing area | 460 | ft² | 42.7 m². The F-35C has 668 ft²1 |
| Weights | |||
| Empty weight | 29,300 | lb | About 13,300 kg, the lightest of the three1 |
| Internal fuel | 18,250 | lb | About 8,280 kg1 |
| Weapons payload | 18,000 | lb | Internal and external stations combined1 |
| Systems and fleet | |||
| Internal weapons stations | 4 | Two bays, two stations each. Outboard up to 2,500 lb (1,500 lb on the B) | |
| Infrared apertures | 6 | AN/AAQ-37 Distributed Aperture System, full-sphere coverage | |
| Aircraft built | 1,345+ | All variants, public tally as of August 20263 | |
05 Variants
A, B and C, side by side.
One family, three jobs. Our studio model is a single airframe, so the plates show it in each setting; the differences are in the table.
CTOL · US Air ForceF-35A Conventional runways. The most common version, and the only one with an internal cannon.
Plate 10Hangar, gear down
STOVL · US Marine CorpsF-35B Short takeoff, vertical landing. A lift fan behind the cockpit and a swivelling nozzle let it land on small decks.
Plate 11Profile, banking
CV · US NavyF-35C Carrier operations. A larger folding wing and stronger landing gear for catapult launches and arrested landings.
Plate 12Planform, from above
| Parameter | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Takeoff and landing | Conventional | Short takeoff, vertical landing | Catapult and arrested |
| Main US operator | Air Force | Marine Corps | Navy |
| Declared operational | 2 Aug 2016 | 31 Jul 2015 | 28 Feb 2019 |
| Length | 51.4 ft | 51.2 ft | 51.5 ft |
| Wingspan | 35 ft | 35 ft | 43 ft |
| Wing area | 460 ft² | 460 ft² | 668 ft² |
| Empty weight | 29,300 lb | 32,300 lb | 34,800 lb |
| Internal fuel | 18,250 lb | 13,500 lb | 19,750 lb2 |
| Weapons payload | 18,000 lb | 15,000 lb | 18,000 lb |
| Combat radius | >590 nm | >450 nm | >600 nm |
| Max load factor | 9.0 g | 7.0 g | 7.5 g |
| Gun | Internal 25 mm | External pod | External pod |
| Folding wing | No | No | Yes |
Tap a variant name to highlight its column.
- 1 Lockheed Martin, F-35 Lightning II Fast Facts (December 2013), and the F-35C fact sheet. Combat radius and range on internal fuel.
- 2 The 2013 figure. A later Lockheed Martin F-35C sheet lists 19,200 lb.
- 3 Wikipedia, Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II: F135 engine rating and the built total (1,345+ as of 5 August 2026). Service dates from US service announcements.
06 Mission systems
The sensors are the point.
The jet fuses what its sensors see into one picture for the pilot, and can pass that picture to other aircraft, ships and ground units.
- 01
Radar
AN/APG-81 AESA
An electronically scanned array in the nose for search, tracking and ground mapping.
- 02
Targeting sensor
AN/AAQ-40 EOTS
Infrared and laser targeting, built flush into the chin instead of hung in a pod.
- 03
Distributed aperture system
AN/AAQ-37 DAS
Six infrared cameras around the airframe. Missile warning and night vision in every direction.
- 04
Helmet display
Gen III HMDS
Flight data and the camera picture on the visor, so the pilot can look through the floor of the jet.
- 05
Engine
Pratt & Whitney F135
The most powerful fighter engine in service, and the heart of the B's lift system.
- 06
Internal carriage
2 bays · 4 stations
Weapons inside keep the shape clean. More can go on wing pylons when stealth matters less.
07 Milestones
From first flight to the fleet.
Lockheed Martin's X-35 is selected for the Joint Strike Fighter program.
First flight of the first F-35A, from Fort Worth, Texas.
F-35B declared operational with the US Marine Corps.
F-35A declared operational with the US Air Force.
F-35C declared operational with the US Navy.
The 1,000th F-35 is delivered, per Air & Space Forces Magazine.
08 What we'd build
Your platform, presented like this.
Everything on this page runs in the browser. We build the same thing for real programs, from your actual CAD and inside your release rules.
Scroll films
Pinned 3D stories that walk a buyer through the platform, chapter by chapter.
Configurators
Payloads, variants and options in 3D, with specs that update as you choose.
Capability statements
One-page PDFs and web pages with CAGE, UEI, NAICS and contract vehicles up front.
Secure portals
Gated pages for partners and program offices, built for CUI handling and Section 508.
F-35 and Lightning II are names used by the US Department of Defense and Lockheed Martin. This is an independent, unofficial concept study by Femtosecond Company and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Lockheed Martin, Pratt & Whitney, Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems or the F-35 Joint Program Office. The 3D airframe is a procedural approximation, not a measured or official model, and the radar plot in the film is illustrative. All plates are concept images rendered from that model, not photographs of a real aircraft. Public figures from Lockheed Martin fact sheets, Wikipedia and press reports; they may differ by block and variant.