Curious about the flap behind the F-35 Lightning cockpit? Learn what it does, why it opens, and how it supports the jet's ...

There hasn't been a big movement away from the program. Analysts say there isn't a better aircraft available right now.

The Air Force's F-102 Delta Dagger was a novel concept in theory, but in reality, it was a potential danger to the pilots who ...

Belgium has proposed that its additional Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II aircraft be assembled in Italy, rather than in the ...

Concerns have grown in Europe about the extent to which Washington could exercise control over F-35 fleets globally.

The repair that ultimately resulted in the creation of the Franken-Lightning took two years and five months to complete and ...

The F-35A Lightning II “Frankenjet,” assigned to the 4th Fighter Generation Squadron, 388th Fighter Wing, returned to Hill Air Force Base, Utah, on March 26. (Capt. Nathan Poblete/U.S. Air Force) An F ...

Israel’s opposition could become a significant additional factor, even if the U.S. and Turkey reach some solution over Turkey ...

An F-35 in “beast mode” can lug an extra 22,000 pounds of internal and external weapons. The American-made F-35 Lightning II ...

In what could be called a modern world wonder, the US Air Force has inducted a first-of-its-kind F-35A Lightning II fighter made from two crashed F-35As. The assembled fighter, known as the ...