The U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II demonstrates what true next-generation air power looks like. With a short take-off ...

A US Marine Corps squadron flying the F-35B Lightning II stealth fighter has returned from a landmark five-month deployment ...

When the UK’s F-35B Lightning jets launched on Operation HIGHMAST in April, they carried more than weapons and fuel. They ...

The last flight of the first F-35B Lightning II covered more than 500 miles at speeds considerably slower than Mach 1.6. And in this case it had to hitch a ride. The airframe of the fighter jet, known ...

The HMS Prince of Wales Carrier Strike Group will link up with the Japanese task group of the JS Kaga to practice combined F-35B operations. The UK’s Royal Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense ...

The squadron is expected to receive its first F-35B later this year and is now actively working to achieve “Safe for Flight” certification. One of the oldest fighter attack squadrons of the United ...

Here are the seven countries operating the world’s most advanced 5th-generation fighter jets.

Japan has taken delivery of its first Lockheed Martin F-35B stealth fighters. An initial batch of three jets were ferried by US pilots to Nyutabaru air base in Japan’s southern Miyazaki region on 7 ...

Japan will deploy its first F-35B Lightning II stealth fighters in the southern part of the country next month, part of efforts to bolster defenses in the Nansei Islands, according to the Ministry of ...

YouTube videos make it look easy, and for pilots, it is easier than in a Harrier. But landing vertically at night, in crosswind, on the moving deck of a ship relies on the highly integrated and ...

U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II aircraft from the USS America have cross-decked onto the Royal Navy’s HMS Prince of Wales ahead of Exercise Talisman Sabre. Currently sailing in waters near ...

Recent air exercises at a Marine Corps base in Iwakuni, Japan, resulted in noise complaints from irate Japanese citizens—and even calls from government officials to end future training there. The ...