From the Mojave Desert to bases around the world, the U.S. Air Force’s 461st Flight Test Squadron has helped turn early ...

The F-35 Lightning II was used in August 2025 to successfully evaluate three B61-12 test assets during a multi-day test campaign. Sandia National Laboratories and the National Nuclear Security ...

US Air Force and Energy Department personnel load a pair of unarmed B61-12 nuclear gravity bombs onto an F-35 at Hill Air Force Base on Aug. 19 for testing. The Energy Department and Air Force in ...

Radar mountings in the nose of the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter are different for the current AN/APG-81 by Northrop Grumman and the future AN/APG-85 radar, also by Northrop Grumman–a difference which ...

An elite U.S. Navy test and evaluation squadron, the VX-9 “Vampires” based out of NAWS China Lake, are now flying the U.S.

The US Air Force (USAF) has taken delivery of a Lockheed Martin F-35A fighter that will be employed for testing software updates and new weapons. The “new specially instrumented F-35A” will join the ...

The U.S. Dept. of Defense issued a further $27.2 million to Lockheed Martin Aeronautics within the context of a previously awarded contract for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The original, December ...

The TR-3 upgrade, which is much more than a mere software/hardware upgrade, is now running years behind schedule—but speculation is mounting that it could arrive soon. The United States Air Force ...

Four Dutch F-35 Lightning II fighters and a tanker operated from the Netherlands' main international airport, one of Europe's busiest, during the NATO-led exercise Avatar. Schiphol Airport, located ...

Recent demonstrations show how relatively simple quadcopter drones can be integrated with sophisticated conventional weapon systems like the F-35 fighter to form what military planners call a kill ...

The top 5th-Gen fighters head-to-head.