As the U.S. grapples with ballooning federal budgets and increasingly necessary spending cuts, the military remains ripe for austerity. In February, the Pentagon suggested cutting $50 billion per year ...

The UK F-35B fighter jet remains grounded in Kerala weeks after an emergency landing, raising the question whether the ...

Due to the lift fan, the F-35B has a smaller internal fuel capacity (and a smaller weapons bay) than other variants. The operational range of the F-35B Lightning II is 900 nautical miles (1,667 km ...

Hill Air Force Base will continue it's tradition of Airmen honoring local Independence Day celebrations with a series of ...

F-35B Flies With Powerful ... A few days ago we got word of the F-35 Lightning II reaching an important milestone in its life: the combined fleet of over 1,300 planes made so far has managed to ...

The 101st Gruppo (Squadron), reactivated after a period in "quadro" (dormant) status, will operate the STOVL variant of the ...

BEAUFORT — Investigating what caused an F-35B Lightning II fighter jet to go missing over South Carolina and crash in a rural stretch of farmland and swamp will take several months, a Marine ...

A former U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B-turned-F-35B Lighting II pilot details efforts to develop a formal landing signal officer (LSO) school to help service members land the advanced fighter jet on ...

VMFA-533 received its first F-35B Lightning II jet, marking their transition from the F/A-18 Hornet to the F-35B. Lance Cpl. Nathan Saucier 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing ...

In 2018, then-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that the ship would be refitted to accommodate and launch F-35B Lightning II aircraft.. Converting the ship to accommodate fighter jets ...

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