The U.S. Air Force significantly reduced its request to Congress for new F-35 fighter jets, seeking just 24 aircraft for ...

As a result, the F-35 won’t change its external appearance—an action that would negatively affect its carefully crafted stealth profile. Block 4 will deliver improvements to both air-to-air ...

On Jan. 6, 2023, the 461st Flight Test Squadron conducted the first flight of an F-35 in the Technology Refresh ... executed a functional check flight (FCF) profile to verify aircraft ...

Lockheed Martin hopes to adapt sixth-generation stealth capabilities into the F-35 by changing some of its coatings and tweaking the outer mold line to better hide it from radar and infrared. (Micah ...

this is a skill set of the F-35 that should make them pay attention. It means they have some missiles and some [missile] profiles that could be particularly vulnerable to interception.” ...

Houthi rebels in Yemen fired on a U.S. military F-35 during recent operations, and the missile came close enough to the aircraft for the pilot to take evasive action, a U.S. official confirmed to ...