“闪电”这个名称没有多少新意。二战时期,美国的P-38战斗机被命名为“闪电”;20世纪50年代,英国研制的一款2倍声速战斗机也叫做“闪电”。美军对F-35的这次命名,说是为了纪念这两种飞机,但却表现出了一些非同寻常之处:它首先打断了美军近几十年用猛禽或动物命名战斗机的惯例;其次是直接将“X-35”转为“F-35”;另外,以前型号的后缀字母是表示改型的,这次却用F-35A、F-35B、F-35C来区别军种,而且代表垂直 “Lightning ” the name is not much new. During World War II, the P-38 fighter in the United States was named “Lightning.” In the 1950s, a 2x speed fighter developed by the United Kingdom was also called Lightning. The U.S. military name of the F-35 was to commemorate the two aircraft, but it showed something unusual: it first interrupted the U.S. military’s practice of using fowlers or animals to name fighter planes in recent decades; The second is directly to “X-35” to “F-35”; In addition, the previous model suffix letters are modified, this time with the F-35A, F-35B, F-35C Differentiate service, but also representatives of vertical