The F-35 program is under renewed fire as its total lifecycle cost estimate has ballooned past $2 trillion. -A 2024 GAO report highlighted a 44% surge in sustainment costs, while a new September 2025 ...

Falcon Strike 25 is the latest stop of the UK’s eight-month-long deployment across the globe, from the North Atlantic to the ...

The Italian Air Force is now the lead European F-35 operator. It was among the first countries in the region to declare an ...

He is a former Naval Flight Officer who performed tactical air control on the carrier-capable Airborne Early Warning (AEW) ...

The U.S. military has reactivated a Cold War-era naval base in Puerto Rico and deployed thousands of troops to the Caribbean as tensions with Venezuela escalate, marking the largest American military ...

The Marine Corps’ F-35B iteration is certainly the most complex mechanically of the three Lightning II models.

The U.S. Air Force is in the process of selecting bases to handle the training and operational needs of the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. These decisions should be announced in the next several ...

The F-35 program is delaying some of its planned Block 4 upgrades as it focuses on delivering capabilities as early as 2031. (A1C Eli Rose/Air Force) The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program is scaling ...

The Technical Refresh-3 effort will update the F-35’s analytics and data-processing systems, in advance of the forthcoming Block 4 upgrade of the F-35 weapons and sensor technologies. Lockheed Martin ...

September 8, 2025: In early September, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report bluntly titled “F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: Actions Needed to Address Late Deliveries and Improve ...

Sep. 18—Jet-engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney has been awarded an approximately $670 million contract modification from the U.S. Department of War for additional production of F135 engines for F-35 ...