Despite being a technologically advanced stealth fighter, the F-35 program is plagued by five significant problems. -Its ...

An F-35A fighter jet performs a strafing run during an even in Arizona on Oct. 26, 2023. Deliveries of the newest F-35s have been stalled for months due to software problems with a key upgrade known ...

A US Marine Corps squadron flying the F-35B Lightning II stealth fighter has returned from a landmark five-month deployment ...

Defensive lasers, new weapons and power and cooling upgrades are among the new capabilities planned for the next standard of the F-35. Credit: Capt. Nathan Poblete/U.S. Air Force A busy agenda awaits ...

A Pratt & Whitney F135 engine undergoes ground testing at Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee. (Rick Goodfriend/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s program to upgrade the F-35′s engines could ...

Lockheed Martin is flying the first production F-35 fighter jets with the new TR-3 hardware and software update in Fort Worth, Texas, the U.S. defense contractor told Janes in late November. This ...

The F-35 Lightning II celebrated a historic milestone as the worldwide fleet has officially reached one million flight hours logged by 16 services with more than 1,100 aircraft. The F-35 Lightning II ...

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 ...

As Elon Musk takes charge of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), created to advise the White House on optimizing federal spending, the F-35 stealth jet program has become a ...

Lockheed Martin says a new five-year deal to sustain the F-35 fleet won’t be reached by the end of this year. The Pentagon says it might not happen at all. “For the F-35 program, and its continually ...

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” ...

Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee are lambasting appropriators who want to buy additional F-35 fighter jets in fiscal 2025 above the Pentagon’s budget request. “At a projected total ...