F-35 Breaks Delivery Record, Continues Combat Success in 2025

In a record-breaking year for the F-35 Lightning II program, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) delivered 191 F-35s in 2025, ...
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Turkey is trying to rejoin the F-35 program—but Israel won’t allow it

Israel holds an effective veto over the export of the F-35 fighter jet in the Middle East—and Turkey-Israel relations are at ...
Not What You Think Official on MSN

Why the F-35 cannot fly near lightning

The F-35 Lightning II is among the most advanced fighter jets ever built, yet it was grounded for years during thunderstorms ...
The Aviationist

Italy Approves First Multinational F-35 Pilot Training Center Outside The U.S.

The new facility at Trapani-Birgi will make the Sicilian base Italy’s third operational F-35 hub and a future multinational training center for NATO and ...

First F-35A Lightning II Joins Finland's Fighter Jet Fleet

Finland may not be the first country that comes to mind when you think of an Air Force, but it is nonetheless expanding with ...
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The F-35 Has a New Threat: Pro-Palestinian Activists

On January 1, a group of pro-Palestinian activists vandalized an aerospace components plant in Scotland indirectly connected ...
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How the Pentagon Let the F-35 Fail—but Kept Paying for It Anyway

Two recent Pentagon reports illustrate the myriad deficiencies of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 program—but the company has never ...
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U.S. Navy Awards Leonardo UK Contract to Equip F-35 with BriteCloud Active Expendable Decoys

The U.S. Navy is acquiring and undisclosed number of BriteCloud Active Expendable Decoys specifically for the F-35 Lightning II. The Naval Air Systems ...
WVEC

Rep. Jen Kiggans gets hands-on look at F-35 fighter jet technology in Virginia Beach

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — U.S. Rep. Jen Kiggans joined Lockheed Martin, local leaders and elected officials Monday to get an up-close look at the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet, one of the most advanced ...
USNI

U.K. Report on F-35 Capability

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 ...
Dallas Morning News

Lockheed’s F-35 fighter jet is a sonic boon for North Texas economy

Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II is promoted as the most advanced fighter jet in the world, and it has an outsized impact in North Texas. Final assembly primarily takes place in Fort Worth, but the ...