The UK’s decision to acquire the F-35A fighter, shifting to a split A and B fleet, caused significant controversy.

The F-35 Lightning II is an advanced multirole combat aircraft with enhanced stealth capabilities and a weapons payload that combine to make it one of the most capable fighter jets in the skies today.

OSHKOSH, Wisconsin—A Lockheed Martin F-35B with a keel damaged 2.5 years ago during a crash landing will be fixed and returned to the fleet, says the U.S. Air National Guard pilot who ejected from the ...

Lockheed Martin will build up to 296 F-35s as part of Lots 18 and 19, with first deliveries in 2026. Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) announced they reached a final agreement ...

Britain’s £71 billion F-35 Lightning stealth jet programme has been plagued by significant delays, equipment shortages, and a critical lack of pilots and engineers, according to the public spending ...

Exclusive: Marine and Air Force F-35 Pilots Detail Their Missions During the Exercise Formerly Known as Northern Lightning. Sentry North, the annual exercise formerly named Northern Lightning, has ...

The F-35 benefits from having the world's largest sustained budget for any fighter jet and is built to excel in different ...

As the U.S. military prepares for the possibility of a conflict in the Pacific, the Navy and Marine Corps are working on a new way to project airpower, and they’re calling it the Lightning Carrier.

UK F-35Bs in Singapore. Credit: Chen Chuanren SINGAPORE—The UK Royal Navy is continuing efforts to recover a Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II that diverted to Thiruvananthapuram Airport in India ...

1. The F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (F-35) is a technologically cutting‑edge multirole stealth fighter aircraft. Originally conceived in the 1990s by the US Department of Defense, the UK is ...

As the U.S. grapples with ballooning federal budgets and increasingly necessary spending cuts, the military remains ripe for austerity. In February, the Pentagon suggested cutting $50 billion per year ...