Record deliveries made 2025 a landmark year for the F-35, but low capability rates still challenge the world’s most advanced ...

The Air Force Reserve's 419th Fighter Wing and the active-duty 388th Fighter Wing operate 78 F-35A Lightning IIs at Hill AFB. These were the Air Force's first two operational, combat-capable F-35A ...

Although it is likely still several years from fielding an operational aircraft, the US Navy (USN) has begun the process of developing new tactics incorporating autonomous fighter jets. The Naval Air ...

An F-35 Lightning II is shown operating alongside Collaborative Combat Aircraft in a conceptual graphic illustrating their integration. (U.S. Navy graphic) Navy pilots have successfully completed ...

While Air Force F-35A and Navy F-35C fighters by Lockheed Martin were in the U.S. strike package against Venezuela on Jan. 3, a December Pentagon Inspector General (IG) report highlighted continuing ...

Aaron Stein argues that “An F-35 Sale to Turkey Won’t Endanger Israel” (Letters, Jan. 5). That’s a nice but naive thought. The transaction would erode Israel’s qualitative military edge. The problem ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says it was “unfair” to banish his country from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program and has called for Ankara to be readmitted to the project. In his first ...

Turkey was the seventh nation to join the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program in 2002 and the only one to be kicked out. And rightly so. Ankara was warned for years that its decision to purchase the ...

When an F-35 touched down on a public highway, it was not a publicity stunt but a response to a changing battlefield. Modern air bases are large, fixed targets, making them vulnerable in a major ...

U.S. F-35 fighter jets were mission-ready only about half the time last year, falling well short of required performance levels, according to a report released by the Pentagon’s inspector general. The ...

Lockheed Martin has received a U.S. Navy contract modification worth approximately $3.63 billion to provide F-35 logistics support services for domestic and international military customers. Register ...

Government officials and military leaders from all over the world gathered on Tuesday at a hangar inside the Lockheed Martin’s F-35 production facility in Fort Worth to roll out the first in a series ...