The image shows Italy’s STOVL stealth fighters inside Pantelleria’s cavernous wartime aircraft shelter, a massive reinforced-concrete structure built into ...

Before the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II became the most-produced stealth fighter in history, it had to beat Boeing’s ...

One day before the House Armed Services Committee holds a major hearing on the F-35 program, the Navy and Marines unveiled a memo committing them to buying both the carrier and STOVL versions of the ...

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- The 33rd Fighter Wing and the F-35 Lightning II program reached a new milestone when Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron-501 completed its first short take-off and ...

A US F-35B Lightning II makes the first vertical landing on a flight deck at sea aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) on October 3, 2011. Photo: IC As China is reportedly building more ...

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program continues to rack up the milestones with the F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) variant breaking the sound barrier for the first time. The F-35B, ...

August 3, 2013: Although India has been operating aircraft carriers for over half a century and is expanding its carrier force, it is facing a lack of experienced carrier personnel because it will, ...

Pratt & Whitney's F135 powerplant for the Lockheed Martin F-35 suffered a second turbine blade failure on 4 February, the same day the US Department of Defense tried for a third time to cancel the ...

Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth, Texas plant is beginning to look like a final assembly line. The first short take-off and vertical landing F-35B, aircraftBF1, is taking shape and behind it is B G-1, the ...

Click to open image viewer. Short takeoff/vertical landing variant to be used by U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marines and the United Kingdom, equipped with a shaft-driven lift fan propulsion system which ...