Pentagon responds to damning test pilot report. In this image released by the U.S. Navy courtesy of Lockheed Martin, the U.S. Navy variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35C, conducts a test ...

The F-35 Lightning II was used in August 2025 to successfully evaluate three B61-12 test assets during a multi-day test campaign. Sandia National Laboratories and the National Nuclear Security ...

OSHKOSH—A joint U.S./UK program is testing safety technology on the Lockheed Martin F-35 that is aimed at avoiding collisions between military and civilian aircraft in the air. The “collision ...

The US Air Force (USAF) has taken delivery of a Lockheed Martin F-35A fighter that will be employed for testing software updates and new weapons. The “new specially instrumented F-35A” will join the ...

One former Marine becomes the first civilian F-35 test pilot at Cherry Point, boosting readiness; another is tapped to lead the Pentagon’s massive F-35 program, overseeing its global management. The ...

Key Points and Summary - Lockheed Martin, MBDA, and the F-35 Joint Program Office have completed key ground-integration tests of the Meteor ramjet-powered beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile on the ...

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter continues to face developmental issues because of a lack of test aircraft, according to the fiscal year 2009 annual report by the Director of Operational Test and ...

The TR-3 upgrade, which is much more than a mere software/hardware upgrade, is now running years behind schedule—but speculation is mounting that it could arrive soon. The United States Air Force ...

Recent demonstrations show how relatively simple quadcopter drones can be integrated with sophisticated conventional weapon systems like the F-35 fighter to form what military planners call a kill ...

Lockheed Martin plans to develop a version of the F-35 that can fly without a pilot, according to the company’s CEO—one of many upgrades the company is pitching for the program after it lost the Air ...