A British F-35B fighter jet remains stranded at a Kerala airport 10 days after an emergency landing, as mystery deepens over a hydraulic snag and the UK's refusal to use India's offered hangar.

Rheinmetall is to shortly begin building fuselage sections for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) at its newly completed Weeze production facility in Germany.

While the F-35's counterpart, the beleaguered F-22 stealth fighter, has a higher price tag per plane, the F-35 is one of the Pentagon's biggest ever acquisition programs at an estimated $379.4 ...