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The F-35 Lightning II is an American supersonic, single-seat, single-engine fighter bomber which will equip Western air forces from the next decade onwards. The F-35 sports the advanced features typical of 5th generation combat air- craft. The purpose of this study is to identify, through the analysis of the current status of the program and of its foreseeable future evolution, those problems which are still open and to suggest some options aimed at improving the Italian and European participation by developing the industrial, technological and operational sovereignty returns in a framework of increasing the “Europeanization” of the program.