Curious about the flap behind the F-35 Lightning cockpit? Learn what it does, why it opens, and how it supports the jet's ...

China has a detection system that it claims can track an F-35 stealth jet. That said, it's not the jet itself that's giving away precious details.

Lockheed Martin has reached a significant milestone with the delivery of the 1,000th F-35 Centre Wing Assembly (CWA) from its Marietta, Georgia facility.

The F-35 will replace AV-8B Harrier IIs in the Marine ... The F-35B has a Lift Fan just behind the cockpit and an engine that can swivel 90 degrees when in short takeoff/vertical landing mode.

Could the U.S. Air Force's plan to retrofit its F-35 fleet with new propulsion systems undermine the jet fighter's much vaunted interoperability?

New images have emerged of one of China’s futuristic fighter jets, a three-engine, tailless, flying wing aircraft Western analysts have dubbed the J-36.

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Pieces of a fractured engine rotor arm “cut through the engine’s fan case ... savings and add back an operational aircraft to the fleet,” a report from the F-35 JPO said. Scott Taylor, lead mechanical ...

The engine is the exclusive powerplant for the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter, a key type for the US military that is also used by Asia-Pacific allies such as Australia, Japan and South Korea.