The Navy awarded Lockheed a $133 million contract modification to continue providing F-35 flight test support for U.S. military services.

What changes when a stealth fighter gains a missile designed to keep accelerating deep into the fight? That question sits at the center of the F-35’s Meteor integration effort. The missile has drawn ...

Lockheed Martin says it flight tested an AI-enhanced combat ID capability on an F-35, using Project Overwatch to help resolve emitter ambiguities.

The US Air Force (USAF) has taken delivery of a Lockheed Martin F-35A fighter that will be employed for testing software updates and new weapons. The “new specially instrumented F-35A” will join the ...

US Air Force and Energy Department personnel load a pair of unarmed B61-12 nuclear gravity bombs onto an F-35 at Hill Air Force Base on Aug. 19 for testing. The Energy Department and Air Force in ...

The F-35 Lightning II was used in August 2025 to successfully evaluate three B61-12 test assets during a multi-day test campaign. Sandia National Laboratories and the National Nuclear Security ...

The modification funds long lead materials, parts, and components for Lots 20 and 21 F-35 aircraft for Denmark.

The TR-3 upgrade, which is much more than a mere software/hardware upgrade, is now running years behind schedule—but speculation is mounting that it could arrive soon. The United States Air Force ...

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter continues to face developmental issues because of a lack of test aircraft, according to the fiscal year 2009 annual report by the Director of Operational Test and ...

New artificial intelligence technology is giving the F-35 the ability to pick out confusing threat emissions and get them properly identified faster.

FORT WORTH, Texas - A loss of primary electrical power in the first, preproduction F-35A Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) forced its pilot to cut short its 19th test flight. On May 3 test pilot Jeff Knowles ...