Lockheed Martin has announced an investment of more than one billion dollars to improve the daily performance of the F-35 fighter jet. The funding will increase the availability of spare parts. It ...

Canada was long expected to buy the F-35 Lightning II to replace its aging CF-18 fighters—but political tensions with America ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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The F-35 program is delaying some of its planned Block 4 upgrades as it focuses on delivering capabilities as early as 2031. (A1C Eli Rose/Air Force) The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program is scaling ...

The inspector general’s report criticized Lockheed Martin’s systemic inability to meet contract requirements, as well as the F-35’s dismal readiness rate. “Audit of the DoD’s Oversight of Contractor ...

A batch of orders for the Fort Worth-assembled F-35 Lightning II fighter jet will take five years longer to fulfill as costs escalate $6 billion over original estimates, according to a new U.S.

Lockheed Martin's F-35 production ramped up in 2025. Find out how many jets were delivered.

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Failure to meet three milestones in the F-35's development ...