Those wavy lines on some fighters' canopies aren't a fashion statement. In a pinch, they could mean the difference between ...

As, and the additional aircraft would take its planned fleet to 50 airframes. Nearly seven months after German media ...

Current fights show how tough the air war is getting, a Royal Air Force officer said. That's why sixth-gen tech is needed as ...

When Lightning Turned Deadly On December 8, 1963, Pan Am Flight 214 was holding over Maryland, waiting for a storm to cl ...

The first F-35A Lightning II designated for in-country service with Belgium’s air force has arrived at Florennes Air Base.

A major social and economic value point from the scale of the F-35 program is the skills growth for American workers and the ...

Over the past 80 years, the air forces of the world have ripped through the skies in five generations of jet fighters. The common denominator of all five generations is the jet engine, an invention so ...

Built by Lockheed Martin with major contributions from BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman, the F-35 Lightning II entered ...

F-35 fighters are designed to fight a high-tech war against a near-peer adversary. The US military is using them to combat ...

With over a thousand F-35s built and thousands more on order, the F-35's flyaway costs can be lower than some ...

Not every plane has the luxury of very long airport-worthy runway strips. In fact, many combat scenarios are in non-ideal locations that often do not come with a nice long runway for landing and ...