Every stealth aircraft before the F-35 paid a brutal price for invisibility: fragile radar-absorbing skin that degraded ...

F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter readiness rates have slipped in recent years despite billions in investments.

Andrew Chang explains why U.S. President Donald Trump is considering reversing the ban on selling F-35 fighter jets to NATO ...

The F-35 has had a series of technical problems in the jet’s development. The Air Force, which plans to buy 1,763 of the planes to replace the F-16 and A-10, declared the stealth jet ready for combat ...

The Pentagon says F-35s received no new combat upgrades last year, and that attempts to replace old software have stalled. Reading time 2 minutes You know how it goes ...

A Government Accountability Office report found that the F-35’s mission-capable rate had fallen from 67 percent at the start of the decade to 44 percent today. Despite being the most advanced fighter ...

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, with its many variants, is likely the best-known fifth-generation fighter plane flying today — at least when it comes to Western nations. As of 2026, 1,000 F-35s ...