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The F-35 Stealth Fighter Haunts the U.S. Air Force

The Air Force will pare back F-35 purchases through 2028, citing Block 4 upgrade and TR-3 computing delays, and will ...
On Friday, two F-35 aircraft out of the 58th Fighter Squadron at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida practiced flying over ...
The F-35’s multirole design prevents it from excelling at close air support—yet the fighter jet is well-suited to missions in ...
Lockheed Martin has awarded a contract to Cubic Defense to supply 130 P5 IS for the F-35 Lot 20 aircraft production line.
The F-35 Lightning II was used in August 2025 to successfully evaluate three B61-12 test assets during a multi-day test campaign. Sandia National ...
F-35 advocates point out that the aircraft is fully interoperable with U.S. aircraft, a key point for defending North America as well as use in NATO operations. The jet, built by Lockheed Martin, is ...
The Energy Department and Air Force in August successfully carried out the first tests dropping unarmed B61-12 nuclear ...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Navy has begun to make plans to recover the F-35C fighter jet that crashed Monday after striking the deck of an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea. The jet is the most ...
The F-35 program also suffers from a shortage of suitably qualified engineers - the biggest threat to delivering the full ...
A Pentagon intelligence report says China could try to acquire advanced F-35 technology in Saudi Arabia if the Trump ...
The University of Tennessee Police Department is warning those around the university’s campus and downtown Knoxville of a ...