After flying for 30 years in front of millions of spectators worldwide, the PACAF F-16 Demo Team will disband in 2025, as Misawa Air Base transitions to F-35s, marking a shift in US regional defense ...

Canadians have had it with the United States. Trump and members of his administration have referred to the Great White North as the 51st state too many times. The extra tariffs have been a pain.

The F-35 has its fair share of critics and proponents. There seems to be no middle ground; people either love it (the pilots) or hate it (most notably Elon Musk ). However, both parties agree that the ...

As the U.S. grapples with ballooning federal budgets and increasingly necessary spending cuts, the military remains ripe for austerity. In February, the Pentagon suggested cutting $50 billion per year ...

In the wake of its loss in the Next Generation Air Dominance competition, Lockheed Martin plans to take the technology from its bid and funnel it into its F-35 program to pitch a lower-cost ...

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 ...

With heightened tensions between Europe and the United States over NATO and Ukraine, the myth of an F-35 “kill switch”, which would supposedly allow the Pentagon to disable foreign-operated F-35s, is ...

The F-35 program is also an economic boon to suppliers and communities that support it, Rubino said, noting that even at the current low initial manufacturing rate of about three aircraft per month, ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he has agreed to sell the nation's most advanced fighter jet to Saudi Arabia despite concerns that China could gain access to the plane's vaunted American ...

A Houthi surface-to-air missile reportedly forced a US F-35 to take evasive action. The highly advanced F-35 is considered one of the top stealth fighter jets in the world. The aircraft, however, is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. To date, Lockheed Martin has delivered more than 1,200 F-35 ...