The last flight of the first F-35B Lightning II covered more than 500 miles at speeds considerably slower than Mach 1.6. And in this case it had to hitch a ride. The airframe of the fighter jet, known ...

The BF-01 aircraft soon to be put on display was actually the very first Lightning II to perform a vertical landing.

U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II strike fighters assigned to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 (VMFA-121) conduct flight operations at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan on August 18, 2020.

The US Department of Defense deployed F-35B Lightning II fighter jets to Puerto Rico as part of an anti-narcotics operation ...

F-35 fighters are designed to fight a high-tech war against a near-peer adversary. The US military is using them to combat ...

The first of ten F-35s arrived in Puerto Rico, notably showing their unit insignias removed. A flight of F-35B Lightning II stealth fighters has arrived ...

Greece and Singapore are expected to adopt F-35 Lightning II variants by 2030—but the aircraft’s large and growing price tag ...

Japanese officials want to ban fixed-wing aircraft training at U.S. Marine Corps Aviation Station Iwakuni after the George ...

PACIFIC OCEAN (Oct. 22, 2017) U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II pilots assigned to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 211, Marine Aircraft Group 13, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, participate in ...

The F-35B Lightning II aircraft arrived at U.S. Central Command on MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., April 4, 2018. The purpose of the two-day visit was to inform CENTCOM senior leadership on the ...

As the U.S. military prepares for the possibility of a conflict in the Pacific, the Navy and Marine Corps are working on a new way to project airpower, and they’re calling it the Lightning Carrier.