The airframe of the fighter, known as the BF-01, was carried by a heavy-lift CH-53K King Stallion helicopter from NAS ...

A, B, and C—with a fourth, Israel’s custom F-35I Adir, proving how adaptable the Lightning II has become. -Beyond stealth, ...

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

The US Department of Defense deployed F-35B Lightning II fighter jets to Puerto Rico as part of an anti-narcotics operation ...

U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors with the 94th Fighter Squadron (94 FS), and U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II aircraft with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 242 (VMFA-242), conduct flight operations out ...

The first of ten F-35s arrived in Puerto Rico, notably showing their unit insignias removed. A flight of F-35B Lightning II stealth fighters has arrived ...

Greece and Singapore are expected to adopt F-35 Lightning II variants by 2030—but the aircraft’s large and growing price tag ...

The F-35B Lightning II aircraft arrived at U.S. Central Command on MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., April 4, 2018. The purpose of the two-day visit was to inform CENTCOM senior leadership on the ...

More than two dozen aircraft from the U.S., Japan and U.K. conducted tactical air exercises Thursday over waters east of ...

PACIFIC OCEAN (Oct. 22, 2017) U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II pilots assigned to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 211, Marine Aircraft Group 13, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, participate in ...

As the U.S. military prepares for the possibility of a conflict in the Pacific, the Navy and Marine Corps are working on a new way to project airpower, and they’re calling it the Lightning Carrier.

China’s J-20 is pricier than America’s F-35 because, unlike the widely exported F-35, the J-20 is built only for domestic use ...