Alongside the F135, the Niepołomice facility supplies precision components for the GTF engine used by commercial passenger aircraft and the PW800 engine for business jets.
Finland’s first F-35A fighters are scheduled to arrive at the Lapland Air Wing in Rovaniemi in autumn 2026.
Northrop Grumman has delivered 1,600 F-35 Lightning II center fuselages on schedule, extending output from an automated California plant built to support U.S. and international customers.
The week-long activity tested precision-strike procedures under realistic operational conditions.
The Pentagon has raised the estimated acquisition cost of the F-35 program to $536.2 billion, up $51 billion from the $485.2 billion recorded in its previous 2023 assessment.
Britain expects its first F-35A fighters to enter service in the early 2030s, bringing the Royal Air Force into NATO’s Dual Capable Aircraft mission and expanding the strategic role of the country’s Lightning Force.
Collins Aerospace has completed altitude testing of EPACS, its next-generation power and thermal management system.
The B-2 Spirit, a central part of the U.S. Air Force’s conventional and strategic strike force, flew over Washington, D.C., on August 22 during the Freedom 250 Grand Prix.
Combat Hammer connected F-35A weapons employment with the maintenance and munitions support required to sustain combat operations.
Royal Navy Lt. Richard Woods is the first British pilot to serve as an instructor on the carrier-based F-35C.
The company is placing crewed-uncrewed teaming with the F-35 at the center of its case for the new platform.
Britain will return the Royal Air Force to a nuclear role with the purchase of at least 12 F-35A aircraft for NATO’s nuclear mission.
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