F-35 Lightning fighter jets have conducted their first night flying trials off the United Kingdom’s largest warship, HMS Queen Elizabeth. The aircraft carrier, which first landed F-35 Lightning jets ...

The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) has delivered a flight clearance recommendation to the Italian navy for safe operation of the Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II on the aircraft carrier ITS Cavour.

Four months after completing the first vertical landing, the Lockheed Martin F-35B flight test fleet also has surpassed the sound barrier. A 10 June test flight flown by US Marine Corps Lt Col Matt ...

A pilot who ejected from a malfunctioning F-35B in heavy rain over South Carolina last year — which kept flying on autopilot for 64 nautical miles before crashing — was fired from his command of a ...

SINGAPORE—The Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) has started flight-validation tests of the Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II operating from its newly converted light aircraft carrier JS Izumo ...

Something exciting is about to take flight at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. In just a few months, the base will get its first squadron of F-35B strike fighters. The F-35B is one of the military’s ...

U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II strike fighters assigned to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 (VMFA-121) conduct flight operations at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan on August 18, 2020.

BL-5 is the fifth Italian F-35B, and the second destined to the 32° Stormo (Wing). On Mar. 9, 2022, the F-35B BL-5, the fifth STOVL (Short Take Off Vertical Landing) aircraft assembled in Italy, at ...

An F-35B conducts weapons environmental testing along the Atlantic Test Range in 2015. (Michael D. Jackson/Lockheed Martin via U.S. Defense Department) On July 13, two F-35B lightning II jets based ...

BL-4 is the fourth Italian F-35B, the third STOVL aircraft destined to the Italian Navy. On Jun. 14, 2021, the F-35B BL-4, the fourth STOVL (Short Take Off Vertical Landing) aircraft assembled in ...