The Danish Air Force has declared a new deployable F-35 operations facility fully operational after its first use during NATO’s Ramstein Flag 2026 exercise in northern Norway.
Lockheed Martin is shifting away from logistics models based primarily on historic flight hours and static usage metrics.
U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II fighters hunted down and destroyed a simulated cruise missile battery over Alaska, then passed the target's coordinates to an Army rocket unit on the ground — a sequence that compressed what officials call the modern kill chain into a single training exercise.
U.S. forces integrated F-35 fighters and HIMARS long-range fires during Operation TUNDRA MERLIN near Nome, Alaska, on August 4 and 6.
Israel is examining a domestically developed stealth fighter inspired by the F-35, according to unofficial government sources.
RTX’s Pratt & Whitney has received a nearly $1.3 billion undefinitized contract for F135 engine spare parts.
Lockheed Martin expects annual F-35 production to remain at 156 aircraft, Chief Executive Jim Taiclet said.
The U.S. Air Force certified two RAF Lakenheath fighter squadrons for combat operations during Combat Archer UK 2026.
NATO deployed F-35 fighters from Denmark, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom during a complex multi-domain air defense activity over the Alliance’s eastern flank on July 23.
Dutch and Danish F-35 fighter jets took part in a multinational Weapons Instructor Course at Leeuwarden Air Base in the Netherlands from July 6 to July 10.
Lockheed Martin said July 24 that the first F-35A Lightning II assembled in Europe for the Polish Air Force had completed its maiden flight in Italy.
SPEAR is designed to engage targets at stand-off range while allowing the launch aircraft to remain outside the reach of enemy air defences.
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