The F-35 Lightning II fighter jet was designed as a joint strike fighter to serve the needs of the United States Air Force, Navy, and Marines, as well as many US allies and partners around the world.

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 ...

In warfare, versatility is critical to gain the upper hand. So when a capable fighter like the F-35 comes to light, all ...

The U.S. will continue to provide the necessary capabilities to support the defense of Japan, the Pacific Air Forces told ...

The scale of Washington's F-35 is unprecedented, even in the history of America’s mega-projects. The enormous task was to ...

1. The F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (F-35) is a technologically cutting‑edge multirole stealth fighter aircraft. Originally conceived in the 1990s by the US Department of Defense, the UK is ...

As the product of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, the F-35 platform was conceptualized to fulfill the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s advanced short take-off/vertical landing ...

The influx of new state-of-the-art aircraft over the remainder of the decade will complete the “progressive drawdown” of the RSAF’s ageing F-16 fleet.

Video shows the aircraft accelerating before a flash envelops the jet. Malaysia said in June that it received approval to buy 33 secondhand Hornets.