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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The U.S. Navy announced it will prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to study the potential effects of transitioning seven existing FA-18E/F Hornet squadrons to F-35C ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Increasing national security, the United States Navy is looking to upgrade some of its fighter jets. The Navy is currently ...

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The upcoming Friendship Day festival at MCAS Iwakuni on May 3 will feature the year’s only overseas appearance by U.S. F-35B ...

The F-35A and F-35C are conducting strikes on Iran as part of Operation Epic Fury—joined by Israel’s domestic F-35I Adir variant. The capabilities of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II in the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. To date, Lockheed Martin has delivered more than 1,200 F-35 ...

WASHINGTON — The US Navy is planning at-sea testing of the carrier variant joint strike fighter in the first few weeks of October aboard the aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower, according to several ...

The Navy made aviation history Nov. 3 as an F-35C Lightning II carrier variant Joint Strike Fighter conducted its first arrested landing aboard an aircraft carrier off the coast of San Diego. Navy ...

An F-35C Lightning II, attached to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 314, prepares to make an arrested landing on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). A ...

Military vehicles and equipment are built to last, and designed to withstand extreme environments in both peacetime and wartime. The same is true for fighter jets like the F-35, which often need to ...

The F-35A is the US Air Force’s variant of the Joint Strike Fighter—yet is broadly similar to the Navy’s F-35C, and could be substituted for it during training. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II ...