Europe’s F-35 Stealth Fighter Are Testing Mach 4 ‘No Escape Zone’ Meteor Missile

Europe’s F-35 Stealth Fighter Are Testing Mach 4 ‘No Escape Zone’ Meteor Missile

The first Meteor missile flights on an F-35 happened on an American jet. In March 2025, a US Marine Corps F-35B carried the European ramjet missile aloft from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, opening flight trials under a UK-US government collaboration — American test infrastructure integrating, for America’s allies, a weapon no American squadron is slated to carry. The MBDA Meteor’s engagement envelope exceeds anything the United States curren…