The F-35 was meant to replace four different aircraft across the US military with a single design. Instead, it spawned three ...

Airframe BF-01 performed the F-35’s first vertical landing on Mar. 18, 2010, and the first vertical takeoff on May 10, 2013, at NAS Patuxent River. The first F-35B Lightning II STOVL (Short Take-Off ...

The Trump administration is mulling over Riyadh’s request to procure as many as four dozen F-35 Lightning II fighter jets.

As the product of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, the F-35 platform was conceptualized to fulfill the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s advanced short take-off/vertical landing ...

He is a former Naval Flight Officer who performed tactical air control on the carrier-capable Airborne Early Warning (AEW) platform, the E-2 Hawkeye. The United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, ...

The U.S. has long been recognized for its technological edge in developing battlefield weaponry. The design work for such platforms occurs years before a system ever sees the light of day and, even ...

The plane’s cost per flight hour exceeds $40,000, more than double that of its alternatives—leading to mission-capable rates hovering below targets for six consecutive years. Beneath the glossy ...