Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II hit full-rate production last year. Today, over 150 fighter jets are being made annually.

The Boeing X-32 was built to compete in the Joint Strike Fighter program — the largest military contract in history at the time. Nicknamed “Monica,” the single-engine delta-wing demonstrator was ...

The U.S. Dept. of Defense issued a further $27.2 million to Lockheed Martin Aeronautics within the context of a previously awarded contract for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The original, December ...

Was the Joint Strike Fighter program a jet choice or doctrine choice and have the airframe choose the jet? The defeat of the Boeing X-32 to what was later to become the F-35 is usually seen as loss of ...

A six-year award worth $230.56 million assigns long lead-time procurement activity for 138 propulsion systems, to power a ...

The Pentagon’s acquisition czar said he is “reasonably confident” that the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program’s classified cyber systems are “well protected” from Chinese and Russian hacking, but Frank ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Hewson, speaking at Bethesda-based Lockheed's media day in ...

The F-35 Lightning II fighter jet is the most expensive fighter procurement program in modern history. Pratt & Whitney, the engine manufacturer for the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jet, recently ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says it was “unfair” to banish his country from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program and has called for Ankara to be readmitted to the project. In his first ...

Once the TR-3 upgrade package is implemented, the F-35 will pose an even greater threat to adversaries. Though the US Air Force and Navy’s upcoming Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) and F/A-XX ...