Head of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves, told the Senate appropriations subcommittee on defense that he expects the F-35 to be capable of detecting and tracking ballistic missiles by 2025.
By U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Donald R. Allen [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Greaves also hinted that the stealth fighter could take down a ballistic missile by having a new “fast missile that’s hung on the bottom of” the fighter.