Two months after a British F-35 fighter made an emergency landing in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram international airport following a technical snag, another one had to make an emergency landing in Japan ...

Rumors of a secret F-35 “kill switch” that would allow the U.S. to remotely disable allied jets are a myth. However, there is ...

The F-35's problems date back to its inception in 2001, when the Pentagon under President George W. Bush ordered "concurrent'' development, testing and production.

India has rejected offers to purchase both the American F-35 and the Russian Su-57, signaling a major pivot towards strategic autonomy. -New Delhi’s decision is driven by a long-term goal to develop ...

In 2024, the F-35 reached full-rate production, a key benchmark for any major defense program. Yet even at that point, the “fly before you buy” approach was proving itself to be demonstrably ...

A British F-35B Lightning fighter jet was forced to make an emergency landing in Japan on Sunday, weeks after another F-35B was left stranded in India due to a technical fault.

But history, and recent testing show how Iranian pilots flying old planes could defeat Americans flying brand-new ones. For one, the F-35, while new, isn’t necessarily a stellar aerial performer.

Each F-35B is supposed to have a service lifetime of 8,000 hours. But this operational test and evaluation report on the F-35 suggests that early-model F-35Bs could be limited to just 2,100 hours ...