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The Air Force now has more F-35s than F-15s and A-10s
Summary List PlacementThe US Air Force's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter fleet has officially surpassed the number of F-15 Eagle jets and A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft, becoming the second largest...
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An F-35 pilot responds to claims the jet is a failure
Summary List PlacementNews outlets the world over may be claiming the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is a failure — or even a dead program — but these sensational headlines aren't all that accurate.Now,...
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Meet the first Air Force pilot to fly 1,000 hours in the F-35A
Summary List PlacementA US Air Force pilot has reached 1,000 flight hours in the F-35A Joint Strike Fighter stealth jet.The service recently announced that Lt. Col. Jared "Vic" Santos of the 388th...
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A risk of thunderstorms prevented Dutch F-35s from escorting US B-52 bombers...
Summary List PlacementOn August 28, 2020, six B-52H Stratofortress bombers took part in Allied Sky, a single-day mission that saw the strategic bombers overfly all 30 NATO nations.Allied Sky was...
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Take a walkaround tour of an Air Force F-35 with the first woman to be an...
F-35 Demo pilot Capt. Kristin "Beo" Wolfe introduces you to the Lightning II stealth aircraft.Wolfe is the first woman F-35A Demo pilot and only the second USAF F-35A Demo Team Pilot in history.Visit...
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F-35s told not to fly near thunderstorms over fears a lightning strike could...
The F-35 Joint Program Office has told commanders not to fly the stealth jet near lightning or thunderstorms out of concern that a lightning strike could make the jet explode.The fear arises from an...
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The F-35 still has hundreds of design flaws, and there's 'no planned...
Hundreds of unresolved design flaws remain in the vaunted F-35 stealth fighter, according to a non-governmental watchdog.Of those flaws, more than 150 are designated as "open, no planned correction,"...
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Keeping an F-35 flying requires proficiency in over 700 tasks — meet the...
To keep an F-35A Lightning II flying and fighting, an airman has to know how to do more than 700 tasks from six different Air Force job specialty areas.The 421st Aircraft Maintenance Unit is the first...
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Elon Musk says the US's F-35 stealth jet 'would have no chance' against a...
Elon Musk said the US military's vaunted F-35 stealth jet "would have no chance" against a drone remotely piloted by a human."The competitor should be a drone fighter plane that's remote controlled by...
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The Marine Corps just got its first carrier variant of the F-35 stealth fighter
The Marine Corps' 3rd Marine Air Wing took delivery of an F-35C stealth fighter jet at Miramar, California, on January 21.The Marines already use the F-35B, which is designed for short takeoffs and...
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The Air Force just put on a combat power exercise with 52 F-35 stealth fighters
Two Air Force fighter wings conducted a combat power exercise that featured 52 F-35A fighter jets rolling down the runway at the same time.The two wings involved have done similar exercises in the...
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The Air Force put some guys in a freezer to test out new Arctic survival gear...
Airmen in Alaska tested a new Arctic survival kit for F-35A pilots this month.Several "Icemen" climbed into subzero chambers and put the suits on — then they stayed there for six hours.Visit Business...
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Get up close and personal with Italian F-35s over Iceland on the stealth...
The Aviationist travelled to Keflavik to see the Italian Air Force Lightnings supporting NATO's Icelandic Air Policing mission.Here are all the details and some stunning photographs.Visit Business...
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A German radar maker says it tracked the F-35 stealth fighter in 2018 — from...
Among its many high-tech features, the F-35 is perhaps best known for its stealth.But a German radar maker says it used its passive radar, set up on a pony farm, to track the stealth fighter as it left...
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US jets smashed an island ISIS was using 'like a hotel' and troops found...
A September 10 strike on Iraq's Qanus Island killed an estimated 25 Islamic State (ISIS) fighters, a spokesperson for the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) told Insider.The fighters were using the...
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F-35s and F-15s just obliterated an entire Iraqi island to root out ISIS...
US Air Force F-15 Strike Eagles and F-35 Lightning II aircraft dropped 80,000 pounds of bombs on an island in Iraq's Salah al-Din province believed to be used as a transit point for ISIS fighters...
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A US Air Force pilot describes how he landed his F-35 safely after a mid-air...
Capt. Jonathan Lowell's F-35A suffered an integrated power package failure during a training flight out of Hill Air Force Base in Utah.IPP failures are not common in the F-35, Lowell writes, but they...
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The F-35's abysmal readiness rate raises questions about future of the...
According to a report from the Project on Government Oversight, the F-35 Lightning II test fleet was only 8.7% fully mission capable in June.The F-35 has been plagued with problems, including issues...
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Turkey's S-400 could give F-35s and F-22s a major advantage in a fight with...
Turkey has roiled NATO by buying S-400 missile defenses from Russia, with experts arguing that allowing Russian systems in NATO defenses could massively weaken the alliance's ability to fight...
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These photos give you a front-row seat for 'an international F-35 training...
RAF F-35B and US Air Force F-35A jets flew to Amendola, Italy, to take part in joint missions with the local-based Italian Air Force F-35A jets.The Aviationist got up close and personal with the...
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