WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Navy has begun to make plans to recover the F-35C fighter jet that crashed Monday after striking the deck of an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea. The jet is the most ...

Lockheed Martin said it set a record delivering 191 F-35 Lightning II jets in 2025, clearing backlog deliveries in the process, with a global fleet that ...

Key Points and Summary - The F-35 is really three aircraft—A, B, and C—with a fourth, Israel’s custom F-35I Adir, proving how adaptable the Lightning II has become. -Beyond stealth, its edge is sensor ...

A pilot was safe after an F-35C fighter jet crashed near a Central California naval installation on Wednesday, officials said. Authorities received a report that a military jet had crashed and was ...

The U.S. maintains a persistent presence of aircraft carriers in the western Pacific to counter China's naval threat.

Today, the US military is locked into a fifth-generation warplane that is overpriced, underperforms, and periodically falls out of the sky without ever meeting the enemy in combat. In what is becoming ...

Finland is the latest country to gain access to the most advanced fighter jet on the planet, ordering a total of 64 such ...

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, ...

Lockheed Martin will build up to 296 F-35s as part of Lots 18 and 19, with first deliveries in 2026. Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) announced they reached a final agreement ...

LEMOORE, Calif - A pilot was able to parachute to safety after an F-35C fighter jet crashed in an agricultural field near a central California naval installation, the Fresno County Sheriff said.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The Navy is moving forward with an environmental impact statement as it considers home-basing F-35C Joint Strike Fighter aircraft at Naval Air Station Oceana, a shift that would ...

LEMOORE, Calif. (AP) — A pilot was safe after an F-35C fighter jet crashed near a central California naval installation on Wednesday, officials said. Authorities received a report that a military jet ...