The government refused to accept delivery of new F-35s for a year between 2023 and 2024, which led to jets being stockpiled ...

Nevertheless, when the Lockheed Martin aeronautics assembly line in Fort Worth shut down in 2025, the company recorded the highest output in its history due to the 191 new issues solved during the ...

Key Points and Summary - GAO’s new report warns the F-35 program is slipping even further despite incentives: all 110 deliveries in 2024 were late by an average of 238 days. -Block 4 modernization is ...

An F-35 Lightning II fighter jet that went down at Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks in January crashed after attempts to fix frozen landing gear left the plane uncontrollable, according to an Air ...

Two recent Pentagon reports illustrate the myriad deficiencies of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 program—but the company has never faced real consequences for it. America’s defense establishment has many ...

A F-35 pilot spent 50 minutes on a conference call mid-air with engineers to solve a problem with a $200 million jet before it plummeted onto the runway at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska, forcing ...

You need to fix alarming mission-capability rates and rising sustainment costs for the Air Force’s F-35A fighter jet, senators told the service’s chief-of-staff nominee on Thursday. “The F-35 remains ...

Developing a next-generation fighter aircraft is a decades-long endeavor. The evolving nature of technological advancement and real-world needs means that a successful fighter will receive years of ...

An Air Force F-35 pilot was on the phone midair with Lockheed Martin engineers for nearly an hour attempting to resolve a landing gear issue before ultimately having to eject from the jet, according ...

Lockheed Martin said it set a record delivering 191 F-35 Lightning II jets in 2025, clearing backlog deliveries in the process, with a global fleet that now counts 1,300 aircraft. Lockheed Martin ...

TIME TO DIET Almost all tactical aviation programs reach this point somewhere in their lives, and now the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is running into weight problems. When Lockheed Martin ...