Released footage showed a British Royal Air Force F-35 Stealth Fighter knocking out a drone in mid-air, marking their first air-to-air kill.

The Navy awarded Lockheed a $133 million contract modification to continue providing F-35 flight test support for U.S. military services.

In the evolving landscape of modern air combat, two aircraft stand out as icons of fifth-generation fighter technology: the American-built Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II and Ru

In the year 2025, Lockheed Martin’s F-35 stealth fighter has reached thousands of delivered units. The fifth-generation stealth fighter has become an icon of air power for America and many of its allies. The three variants have all shown their ...

The F-35 has been tested with a new artificial intelligence-enhanced Combat Identification capability to help pilots quickly identify unknown emitters detected by its sensors. Lockheed Martin has announced that it has tested a new artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced Combat Identification (Combat ID) capability on the F-35 Lightning II.

The F-35’s AI is not equipped to operate the plane’s weapons systems, or to make other important decisions that must be left up to the pilot.

In one of the most uncomfortable lessons to come out of Red Flag 2017, a stealth fighter that could “look first” and “shoot first” still found itself dragged into a close-in mess it was built to avoid.

The USS Iwo Jima will head to BAE Systems' Norfolk shipyard this year to receive upgrades to fully support F-35B operations.

Modern military aircraft can be phenomenally expensive to build, so it makes sense to have them in service as long as possible.