Norway’s Kongsberg will manufacture aircraft rudders, vertical leading edges and main landing gear closeout panels.

The F-35 will also serve as a test bed for technologies that will become commonplace in the next generation of jets. Flying in coordination with AI-enabled drones will become a staple of any ...

The F-35 Lightning II fighter jet has played a crucial role in both the US and Israel’s strikes in the ongoing Iran war. Is ...

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it struck a US F-35 fighter jet ...

If the Super Hornet is the workhorse, then the Navy's F-35C is a quarterback on the battlefield. Although the Lightning II is ...

F-35 maintenance is a matter of much concern to operators: a recent Pentagon inspector general report found that the aircraft’s average availability rate for 2024 was only about 50%. The Pentagon ...

Iran Hit US F35: After 21 days of sustained and intense combat, the conflict in West Asia has entered a critical phase, with mounting losses reported on multiple fronts. On Thursday, fresh reports ...

Lockheed Martin delivered 191 F-35 fighter jets in 2025 - a new annual record, but several dozen of those aircraft had been held units delayed from past deliveries as the manufacturer caught up with ...

The new 5th-generation arms race.

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 ...

U.S. Air Force combat pilot also worked as a contractor F-35 instructor before allegedly providing expertise to China.

Canada was long expected to buy the F-35 Lightning II to replace its aging CF-18 fighters—but political tensions with America, and a surprising offer from Sweden, have upended these assumptions.