National Security Journal on MSN
The U.S. Air Force’s F-35 Stealth Fighter Block 4 Crisis
The F-35’s critical Block 4 upgrade package is now five years behind schedule, expected in 2031, and $6 billion over budget, ...
Doing anything for 5,000 hours without a mistake is great, much less flying an F-35. And an entire squadron having zero ...
Erdoğan and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a deal worth up to £8 billion (approximately $10.7 billion) for 20 U.K ...
A House of Commons committee has been told that planning and construction of new facilities for the RCAF's new F-35s is ...
The win comes after Lockheed Martin in July cleared its backlog of F-35s stored in long-term parking due to software problems ...
Lockheed Martin has begun the “engineering analysis” around adding sixth-generation features to the company’s ...
The F-35 program is delaying some of its planned Block 4 upgrades as it focuses on delivering capabilities as early as 2031. (A1C Eli Rose/Air Force) The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program is scaling ...
In 2024, every single one of the 110 fighters delivered by Lockheed was delivered late. The F-35 Lightning II’s latest modernization package is now delayed by at least two years. According to a report ...
Every F-35 delivered to the U.S. military last year by Lockheed Martin was behind schedule by an average of seven months, a government watchdog found, but contractors kept millions in “incentive fees” ...
A flight of F-35s slips into Iranian airspace in the dead of night, the stealth fighters going undetected by air defenses.
For many, the pricetag of the F-35 has been its Achilles heel. With the program's total cost now at a baffling $1.7 trillion, the Lightning II easily cleared the bar to become the most expensive ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results