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Belgium is to have any additional Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft built in Europe ...
Switzerland has finalized a 36-aircraft F-35A purchase, concluding a hotly debated procurement process. Though competitors ...
The U.S. Air Force 18th Wing, which is the host unit for Kadena Air Base, announced in a news release that an unknown number of the F-35A Lightning II fighter aircraft, which are assigned to the ...
The F-35A Lightning II “Frankenjet,” assigned to the 4th Fighter Generation Squadron, 388th Fighter Wing, returned to Hill Air Force Base, Utah, on March 26. (Capt. Nathan Poblete/U.S. Air ...
The F-35A AF-211, 17-5269, is an F-35A assembled from parts of two damaged airframes: AF-27, which suffered an engine fire in 2014, and AF-211, grounded after a nose landing gear failure in 2020.
The US military has no current plans to permanently deploy F-35A fighter jets to South Korea, a US Air Force spokesperson said Wednesday. The statement came amid reports that the US is considering ...
The recycled warplane traces its origins to 2014, when an F-35A about to take off on a training mission from Florida’s Eglin Air Force Base suffered “catastrophic engine failure,” according ...
A ceremony was held at the Air Self-Defense Force’s Komatsu Air Base in Ishikawa Prefecture on April 26 for the deployment of three F-35A stealth fighter jets there. The F-35A is the latest ...