A Pentagon intelligence report says China could try to acquire advanced F-35 technology in Saudi Arabia if the Trump ...

The Trump administration is mulling over Riyadh’s request to procure as many as four dozen F-35 Lightning II fighter jets.

1. The F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (F-35) is a technologically cutting‑edge multirole stealth fighter aircraft. Originally conceived in the 1990s by the US Department of Defense, the UK is ...

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 ...

PARIS—A key milestone for the Pentagon’s program to upgrade the F-35 engine has been pushed back a year, raising questions about the overall timeline of the effort. The engine upgrade will reach ...

The F-35’s multirole design prevents it from excelling at close air support—yet the fighter jet is well-suited to missions in contested airspace, which competitors like the A-10 Warthog are not.

It has not been a good couple of weeks for the F-35 Lightning II program. Foreign suitors in the past lined up to buy the fifth-generation stealth fighter for their air forces, but now countries such ...