“I did ask the Italian minister of defence whether we could produce the extra F-35s in Italy and not in the US,” Francken says. Cameri, Italy is home to one of three F-35 final assembly and ...

An F-35 in “beast mode” can lug an extra 22,000 ... Back in 2018, the Israeli F-35I fleet also became the first to ever see combat action. Israeli Lightning IIs were used to strike Iranian ...

And the uncertainty about the availability and age of the various fleets of aircraft is expected to grow in light of the Liberal government's pledge to look at alternatives to the F-35 fighters ...

At first glance, you'd be forgiven for confusing it for the now politically infamous — at least in Canadian terms — F-35 fighter ... rolled to become a light combat aircraft should Canada ...

Or sign-in if you have an account. Recently, Defence Minister Bill Blair announced that he had been tasked with reviewing the decision to purchase F-35 fighter jets to replace the Royal Canadian ...

The air force general who recommended Canada buy the F-35 fighter jet now says the purchase should no longer go forward as planned because the U.S. has become so untrustworthy. Retired Lt.- ...

However, no European jet matches the fifth-generation F-35, a low-observable networking platform capable of quarterbacking a range of combat capabilities. Read next ...

The review of Canada’s F-35 fighter jet purchase will take into account the work already done that led to the original selection of the U.S. aircraft, but no final public deadline has been set ...