The new facility at Trapani-Birgi will make the Sicilian base Italy's third operational F-35 hub and a future multinational ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for Turkey’s re-entry into the US-led F-35 fighter jet-program, saying it would help ...

Lockheed Martin said on Wednesday it delivered 191 F-35 fighter jets in 2025 to the United States and its allies, a record ...

The F-15EX was supposed to be the safe, unglamorous choice next to the stealthy F-35 and F-22, a bridge for aging squadrons ...

The F-35 program closes 2025 under the shadow of a new report from the Pentagon‘s Inspector General: millions in payments ...

The US fleet of F-35s, the most sophisticated stealth fighter jet in the world, was only available to fly half of the time because of poor maintenance by Lockheed Martin Corp., a government watchdog ...

An audit found that the defense department paid the aerospace company $1.7 billion by July in spite of poor performance.

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 ...

The crash of an F-35 stealth fighter jet in California joins a list of accidents in recent years that have highlighted controversy surrounding the aircraft. The U.S. Navy said July 30 that the jet ...

Every F-35 delivered to the U.S. military last year by Lockheed Martin was behind schedule by an average of seven months, a government watchdog found, but contractors kept millions in “incentive fees” ...

The F-35’s multirole design prevents it from excelling at close air support—yet the fighter jet is well-suited to missions in contested airspace, which competitors like the A-10 Warthog are not.

With small control surfaces and no thrust vectoring, the F-35 cannot change direction rapidly in close-range engagements. While hyper maneuverability has become a cornerstone of modern fighter jet ...