A US F-35B Lightning II makes the first vertical landing on a flight deck at sea aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) on October 3, 2011. Photo: IC As China is reportedly building more ...

Aircraft carriers remain the ultimate symbols of naval power, enabling countries to project air ...

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program continues to rack up the milestones with the F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) variant breaking the sound barrier for the first time. The F-35B, ...

August 3, 2013: Although India has been operating aircraft carriers for over half a century and is expanding its carrier force, it is facing a lack of experienced carrier personnel because it will, ...

The planned delivery of the first six F-35B Lightning II fighters for Japan in FY2024 has now been pushed back to sometime during FY2025, Japan’s Defense Minister announced. The delivery of the first ...

Pratt & Whitney’s F135 powerplant for the Lockheed Martin F-35 suffered a second turbine blade failure on 4 February, the same day the US Department of Defense tried for a third time to cancel the ...

Click to open image viewer. Short takeoff/vertical landing variant to be used by U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marines and the United Kingdom, equipped with a shaft-driven lift fan propulsion system which ...

Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth, Texas plant is beginning to look like a final assembly line. The first short take-off and vertical landing F-35B, aircraftBF1, is taking shape and behind it is B G-1, the ...

Our boy Steve Trimble posted a piece this morning on a series of hover pit tests conducted by Lockheed Martin with it's F-35B prototype -- they're calling it the BF-1. Hover pit tests completed two ...

The Japanese Ministry of Defense announced formally its decision to select the U.S. F-35B stealth fighter as the country’s short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft. The decision was ...