The British Royal Navy has carried out flight tests of the F-35B Lightning fighter jet armed with the nation's latest air-to-air missile, the Meteor, for the very first time. Pilot Lieutenant ...

A lack of availability, limited air-to-ground strike capability, and spare part and pilot shortages are indicative of systematic failures.

During these initial flights, the F-35B was equipped with an inert Meteor missile to collect environmental data, a crucial step toward integrating UK-specific weaponry into the F-35 platform. This ...

A British F-35B from HMS Prince of Wales was forced to make an emergency landing at Kagoshima Airport, Japan, after a mid-air ...

Following reports about the cancellation of a landing aid for the SRVL technique on HMS Queen Elizabeth, a Govt minister has clarified that, though timelines have shifted, rolling landings are still ...

UK F-35Bs in Singapore. Credit: Chen Chuanren SINGAPORE—The UK Royal Navy is continuing efforts to recover a Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II that diverted to Thiruvananthapuram Airport in India ...

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The F-35B stealth jet, which had been stranded in India for over a month due to mechanical failure, is finally returning home after undergoing extensive repairs. After more than a month left “stranded ...

The F-35A completed ground vibration testing and fit checks at Edwards Air Force Base ahead of the beginning of flight testing. The F-35 Joint Program ...

The UK’s military has deployed a team of engineers to work on a Lockheed Martin F-35B which has been stranded in India’s southwestern Kerala state since making an emergency landing in mid-June.

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is to regain the ability to deploy nuclear weapons, with the UK government poised to order a batch of “at least a dozen” Lockheed Martin F-35As able to support NATO’s ...