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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

One of the most important aircraft of the 21st Century made its first flight last month -- the F-35B Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) variant of the 5th generation Joint Strike Fighter (JSF ...

The Lockheed Martin's F-35B Lightning II short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) variant has demonstrated during testing that it produces excess vertical thrust - more than required to carry out its ...

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 ...

The term “austere airfield” has many meanings in defense literature. In regard to support infrastructure, the term generally implies very limited or nonexistent facilities for storing fuel, housing ...

Lockheed Martin's X-35B Joint Strike Fighter STOVL aircraft made its first conversion from conventional wingborne to Short Takeoff and Landing mode and its first supersonic flight July 9, company ...

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 ...

The Japanese Ministry of Defense announced formally its decision to select the U.S. F-35B stealth fighter as the country’s short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft. The decision was ...