President Donald Trump is no stranger to saying questionable things, and he had some in the U.S. Air Force scratching their heads when he claimed there were plans to develop an F-35 Joint Strike ...

The F-35 has had a significant start to 2026. Regardless of one's thoughts on the wisdom or constitutionality of foreign ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday floated the idea of a supercharged F-35 called the F-55. He said this aircraft would have two engines because he doesn't like single-engine planes. Lockheed Martin's ...

Trump wants an F-35 stealth fighter with two engines because he doesn't like single-engine planes. He wants to call this new twin-engine F-35 the F-55. A former F-35 program manager told BI that this ...

WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's vision of a new, twin-engine version of Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighter jet may need to be scaled back due to cost and engineering realities ...

President Trump described the F-55 as a substantial upgrade over the F-35, together with the ongoing upgrades to F-35 and F-22. U.S. President Donald Trump is currently on a tour in the Middle East, ...

U.S. Navy fighter pilot Jeff “Bangs” Fellows was out of munitions – but not out of the fight. In any other fighter jet, he might have had reason to head back to base and wait to see how the training ...

The $2.8B contract funds 141 F135 engines for U.S. services and allies, securing production, spares, and upgrades through February 2028. Pratt & Whitney has been awarded a major contract, valued at ...

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 ...

The Ilmavoimat (Finnish Air Force) is parallelly undertaking extensive infrastructural work and training its personnel in the U.S., while officials work on the domestic defense industrial tie ups and ...

With small control surfaces and no thrust vectoring, the F-35 cannot change direction rapidly in close-range engagements. While hyper maneuverability has become a cornerstone of modern fighter jet ...