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Lockheed Martin delivered 191 F-35s in 2025

Lockheed Martin said it set a record delivering 191 F-35 Lightning II jets in 2025, clearing backlog deliveries in the ...
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UK public in the dark on F-35A timelines as MoD data dries up

The UK decision to switch acquisition of some F-35B fighters to the F-35A was controversial, with likely delivery timelines ...
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Why Does America’s F-35 Fighter Look So Much Like an Old Soviet Prototype?

It is unlikely that, as many Russian sources brag, the F-35B was a direct rip-off of the Yak-141. However, there are many staggering similarities between the two planes. Most military and aviation ...
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RAF jets a ‘disappointing return’ on £11 billion cost as programme plagued by delays

Britain’s £71 billion F-35 Lightning stealth jet programme has been plagued by significant delays, equipment shortages, and a critical lack of pilots and engineers, according to the public spending ...
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Lightning Carriers: The Marines’ secret weapon in the Pacific

As the U.S. military prepares for the possibility of a conflict in the Pacific, the Navy and Marine Corps are working on a new way to project airpower, and they’re calling it the Lightning Carrier.
Aviation Week

U.S. Marine Corps Will Repair Keel-Damaged F-35B

OSHKOSH, Wisconsin—A Lockheed Martin F-35B with a keel damaged 2.5 years ago during a crash landing will be fixed and returned to the fleet, says the U.S. Air National Guard pilot who ejected from the ...
Aviation Week

Second Stovl F-35 Joins Flight Testing

Lockheed Martin flew the second short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing (Stovl) F-35B Joint Strike Fighter for the first time on Feb. 25. Aircraft BF-2 will be used from conventional up-and-away flight ...
The Aviationist

JPO and Lockheed Martin Finalize F-35 Contract for Lots 18 and 19

Lockheed Martin will build up to 296 F-35s as part of Lots 18 and 19, with first deliveries in 2026. Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) announced they reached a final agreement ...
The Aviationist

Italian F-35Bs and AV-8B+ Harriers Train with French Rafale Ms

The Italian F-35s deployed for the first time to Landivisiau Naval Air Base, integrating 5th gen aircraft in the training of the French Navy’s Rafales. The French Navy’s (Marine Nationale) Landivisiau ...
UPI

British fighter jet, famed for being stuck, leaves India

July 22 (UPI) --A British fighter jet that had been famously stranded at an Indian airport finally took off Tuesday after a nearly 40-day stay. The presence of the Royal Navy's F-35B fighter jet, a ...
Task & Purpose

Lightning Carriers: The Marines’ secret weapon in the Pacific

The Marine Corps is turning the Navy’s amphibious assault ships into small and agile carriers loaded with F-35B Lightning II aircraft in preparation for a fight in the Pacific. By Kyle Gunn Published ...