Lockheed Martin, MBDA and the F-35 Joint Program Office have completed a series of ground based integration tests with the Meteor missile and the F-35A, marking a key step toward future flight trials.
The Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force concluded Exercise Gunfighter Flag 25-02 on 21 November 2025 after training alongside U.S. Air Force units at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho.
Pratt & Whitney, an RTX business, has received a 1.6 billion dollar undefinitised contract action to sustain F135 engines that power all three variants of the F-35 Lightning II.
The Royal Air Force has concluded Operation Highmast, an eight-month deployment that spanned Europe, the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific while demonstrating the UK’s ability to project air and space power worldwide.
Training for the Czech Republic’s future F-35 pilots moved forward last week as members of the 211th Tactical Squadron completed simulator exercises at the Tactical Simulation Centre in Pardubice.
Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre will work with Lockheed Martin over the next six years to develop an e-Pilot capability that strengthens human-machine teaming in military aviation.
The UK Carrier Strike Group has completed its final major exercise of the 2025 deployment, highlighting the flexibility of the F 35B as British and Italian jets operated from each other’s carriers.
Poland’s Ministry of National Defence has approved a contract for the purchase of AIM-120D3 medium-range air-to-air missiles valued at about 500 million USD net.
The U.S. Air Force has confirmed that F-35A fighters carried out suppression of enemy air defences and provided escort duties during Operation Midnight Hammer, the 22 June strike on Iranian uranium enrichment and nuclear research sites.
Former Canadian military officers have urged the government not to reduce its future F-35A fleet and switch to Gripen E/F fighters from Saab.
After years of uninterrupted cost growth and mounting implementation problems, the programme to modernise the avionics of Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft to the TR-3/Block 4 standard has already exceeded its planned budget by more than six billion US dollars and is five years behind schedule.
Lockheed Martin announced on 21 November that the German state secretary visited the company’s Fort Worth facilities.
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