The Pentagon’s top official for weapons testing sent a sternly worded letter warning the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program and the Air Force that their plans to start unmonitored flight training on ...

JSF HONCHO: The Joint Strike Fighter program will get a new leader. U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Christopher C. Bogdan has been nominated for a third star and will be assigned as director of the Joint ...

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is the world’s premier fifth-generation air platform. Its performance is unmatched by any existing fourth-generation aircraft as well as the so-called ...

The multinational F-35 program last week conducted its second weapons drop and gained two fully installed full-mission simulators. On Oct. 17, a conventional-takeoff-and-landing F-35, AF-1, performed ...

FORT WORTH, Texas, March 5 (UPI) -- A modified Boeing 737 that will be used to test the avionics package for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has arrived in Texas. The airliner dubbed the Cooperative ...

Debate over the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) has reached a fever pitch in recent months as advocates and critics of the program battle it out in the pages of Beltway publications—all for the ...

Before the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II became the most-produced stealth fighter in history, it had to beat Boeing's X-32 in the Joint Strike Fighter competition — the most consequential fighter ...

The conclusion of a second memorandum of understanding on the Joint Strike Fighter in December opened the door for the JSF to progress from being a paper airplane to an aircraft in production.

Lockheed Martin Corp.’s LMT Aeronautics business unit recently secured a modification contract involving its F-35 fighter jet program. The award has been offered by the Naval Air Systems Command, ...

The F-35 Lightning II is a 5th generation fighter, combining advanced stealth with fighter speed and agility, fully fused sensor information, network-enabled operations and advanced sustainment.

The agency's proposed dual-control requirement for AAM fails to learn from the success of the F-35B program. US Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II powered-lift fighter jet. The Department of Defense in ...