Pentagon responds to damning test pilot report. In this image released by the U.S. Navy courtesy of Lockheed Martin, the U.S. Navy variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35C, conducts a test ...

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 ...

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 Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division at Patuxent River completed a key tactical demonstration showing F-35 ...

One former Marine becomes the first civilian F-35 test pilot at Cherry Point, boosting readiness; another is tapped to lead the Pentagon’s massive F-35 program, overseeing its global management. The ...

The Joint Simulation Environment is playing a key role in developing tactics and operational concepts for integrating Collaborative Combat Aircraft with ...

Lockheed Martin was granted a new $180-million Pentagon contract modification to its existing contract covering planning and production for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft. Specifically, the ...

The Department of Defense said Monday the new flight science aircraft will help avert any rise in the test capability gap and enable future flight science testing of Block 4 capabilities in support of ...

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 ...

NAWCAD hosts dozens of squadrons and hundreds of pilots annually, fostering joint and international collaboration in advanced ...