The Air Force’s F-35 roadmap shows modest fleet growth through 2030, with near-term buys reduced to fund crucial ...

The Air Force will pare back F-35 purchases through 2028, citing Block 4 upgrade and TR-3 computing delays, and will ...

The Energy Department and Air Force in August successfully carried out the first tests dropping unarmed B61-12 nuclear ...

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 ...

A Pentagon intelligence report says China could try to acquire advanced F-35 technology in Saudi Arabia if the Trump ...

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 F-35 Lightning II was used in August 2025 to successfully evaluate three B61-12 test assets during a multi-day test campaign. Sandia National ...

For many, the pricetag of the F-35 has been its Achilles heel. With the program's total cost now at a baffling $1.7 trillion, the Lightning II easily cleared the bar to become the most expensive ...

The UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee found that a "pattern of short-term decision-making" had delayed investment in the F-35 fighter jet early on, increasing its later costs.

The F-35 program also suffers from a shortage of suitably qualified engineers - the biggest threat to delivering the full ...