The F-35 may be the most capable fighter aircraft the Marines have ever flown, but it also might be the most complicated.

With US defense spending set to exceed $1T in 2026, few programs reflect that scale better than Lockheed Martin's F-35 ...

What it takes to be in the tailhook club.

Lockheed Martin has floated multiple proposals to upgrade the F-35 fighter as sixth-generation alternatives emerge—but for the time being, it has its hands full manufacturing the existing ones! As ...

Think of a violin made by a master craftsman: beautiful, precise, capable of extraordinary performance, but impossible to ...

Florida Congressman John Rutherford heralds the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet as vital for national security and a major ...

The Joint Simulation Environment is playing a key role in developing tactics and operational concepts for integrating Collaborative Combat Aircraft with the F-35. Advancing the effort towards ...

Japan now operates dozens of advanced F-35 stealth fighters—including the F-35B STOVL variant, based on its two quasi-aircraft carriers. Eighty years ago, following its defeat in World War II, Japan ...

Claims about modifying the F-35’s software raise legitimate sovereignty questions. But cybersecurity architecture, cryptography, and sustainment realities define strict limits on what can and cannot ...

Radar mountings in the nose of the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter are different for the current AN/APG-81 by Northrop Grumman and the future AN/APG-85 radar, also by Northrop Grumman–a difference which ...

Last September the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin finalized terms for production Lots 18 and 19 of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, agreements totaling $24 billion for delivery of up to 296 ...

In the past 24 hours, this was the second US fighter jet that Iran claimed to have destroyed. Reports said that due to the disintegration of the aircraft, there is no information about the fate of the ...