A surprisingly simple innovation is helping tackle one of the F-35's most expensive risks, saving time, money, and preventing ...

Every stealth aircraft before the F-35 paid a brutal price for invisibility: fragile radar-absorbing skin that degraded ...

F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter readiness rates have slipped in recent years despite billions in investments.

The F-35 has had a series of technical problems in the jet’s development. The Air Force, which plans to buy 1,763 of the planes to replace the F-16 and A-10, declared the stealth jet ready for combat ...

A Government Accountability Office report found that the F-35’s mission-capable rate had fallen from 67 percent at the start of the decade to 44 percent today. Despite being the most advanced fighter ...

The Pentagon says F-35s received no new combat upgrades last year, and that attempts to replace old software have stalled. Reading time 2 minutes You know how it goes ...

Multiple Israeli sources said that the Jewish state's F-35s have remained more combat-ready than the report detailed for American F-35s, though none were willing to provide specific numbers.