The F-35 continues to evolve in 2025 with new upgrades and operational deployments. This video examines how the fighter jet performed over the past year, including successes and challenges. Learn ...

Radar mountings in the nose of the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter are different for the current AN/APG-81 by Northrop Grumman and the future AN/APG-85 radar, also by Northrop Grumman–a difference which ...

The South Florida Water Management District held a python hunt in December with cash prizes. Kevin Pavlidis won multiple awards, including for most pythons captured and the longest python. The ...

The United States F-35 fighter program recently hit significant milestones in both the number of aircraft delivered and components produced as 20 allied and partner nations rapidly field the stealth ...

NAPLES, Italy — An Italian air base in Sicily will host the first F-35 Lightning II pilot training facility outside the U.S., an indication of NATO’s increasing demand for the fifth-generation fighter ...

Israel holds an effective veto over the export of the F-35 fighter jet in the Middle East—and Turkey-Israel relations are at a historic low, making Israeli obstruction a foregone conclusion. Turkish ...

Turkey was the seventh nation to join the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program in 2002 and the only one to be kicked out. And rightly so. Ankara was warned for years that its decision to purchase the ...

The U.S. fleet of F-35s, the most sophisticated stealth fighter jet in the world, was only available to fly half of the time because of poor maintenance by Lockheed Martin Corp., a government watchdog ...

The U.S. has reiterated that Turkey must give up the S-400 missile defense system it purchased from Russia to be eligible for the acquisition of advanced F‑35 fighter jets. Turkey had intended to buy ...

Following the Trump administration’s announcement this month that it would move forward with an F-35 fighter jet sale to Saudi Arabia, Washington may soon face renewed debate over whether Turkey ...

Sun political columnist Brian Lilley talks with retired Lt.-Col. Billie Flynn - of the Canadian Armed Forces - about the F-35 fighter jet program started in the 1990s, under PM Jean Chretien, and now ...

The F-35 program gets a lot of flak. But every once in a while, it does something so impressive you just have to cheer. In October 2025, one of the U.S. Marine Corps' F-35B units, the Marine Fighter ...