Despite being a technologically advanced stealth fighter, the F-35 program is plagued by five significant problems. -Its ...

The F-35’s key superiority to the F-16 is in terms of stealth and beyond visual range (BVR) capabilities. The F-35's design ...

As rivals evolve and unmanned stealth aircraft emerge, the F-35's long development timeline raises questions about US airpower strategy.

Airman 1st Class James Meredith applies precision tape on an F-35A Lightning II at RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom, March 20, 2025. (SrA Seleena Muhammad-Ali/Air Force) LONDON — After encountering ...

BackgroundThe emergence of fifth- and sixth-generation fighter aircraft—such as the F-35 Lightning II and advanced air ...

With small control surfaces and no thrust vectoring, the F-35 cannot change direction rapidly in close-range engagements. While hyper maneuverability has become a cornerstone of modern fighter jet ...

A batch of orders for the Fort Worth-assembled F-35 Lightning II fighter jet will take five years longer to fulfill as costs escalate $6 billion over original estimates, according to a new U.S.

Every F-35 delivered to the U.S. military last year by Lockheed Martin was behind schedule by an average of seven months, a government watchdog found, but contractors kept millions in “incentive fees” ...

The plane’s cost per flight hour exceeds $40,000, more than double that of its alternatives—leading to mission-capable rates hovering below targets for six consecutive years. Beneath the glossy ...

The cost of the Pentagon’s modernization program for the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet is more than $6 billion over original estimates, with the date of completion now five years later than the ...