The multinational team effort behind the Lightning II.

The F-35A is the US Air Force’s variant of the Joint Strike Fighter—yet is broadly similar to the Navy’s F-35C, and could be substituted for it during training.

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.

The F-35s that participated in the US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities flew deep into its airspace. The fighter jets escorted the B-2 stealth bombers and were the last to leave Iranian airspace.

An elite U.S. Navy test and evaluation squadron, the VX-9 “Vampires” based out of NAWS China Lake, are now flying the U.S.

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