11.   The joint strike fighter is basically out there as a concept.

12.   The options include the joint strike fighter and several European competitors.

13.   The plane is being developed as a manned strike fighter.

14.   The two companies competing to build the joint strike fighter, Boeing and Lockheed Martin, are moving briskly in their flight testing.

15.   Then what proved essential were more agile strike fighters that could loiter overhead as Special Forces troopers on the ground identified and marked individual targets.

16.   They may drive tanks, load bombs onto jet strike fighters, handle explosives, rig parachutes and man guardposts and checkpoints.

17.   And an announcement on the next generation fighter plane, the joint strike fighter, should be made within the next month.

18.   The joint strike fighter is a radar-evading supersonic multi-role fighter.