Business Insider recently sat down with a test pilot for the F-35 stealth fighter jet. She explained what it was like to jump from flying older F-16s to the fifth-generation aircraft. The biggest ...

The test will streamline future certifications for both allies.

Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Pax River ITF completed an initial flight test integrating the AGM-158C LRASM onto the F-35B Lightning II, following the first test on the F-35C in September 2024.

The F-35 Lightning II was used in August 2025 to successfully evaluate three B61-12 test assets during a multi-day test campaign. Sandia National Laboratories and the National Nuclear Security ...

(Tribune News Service) — Lockheed Martin Corp. is still delivering F-35 fighter jet aircraft with quality defects after 13 years of production, according to the Pentagon test office’s annual ...

The US Air Force (USAF) has taken delivery of a Lockheed Martin F-35A fighter that will be employed for testing software updates and new weapons. The “new specially instrumented F-35A” will join the ...

An F-35 Lightning II pilot sent tactical autonomy commands via a tablet to the MQ-20 Avenger as part of a recent Manned-Unmanned Teaming demonstration. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems announced ...

OSHKOSH—A joint U.S./UK program is testing safety technology on the Lockheed Martin F-35 that is aimed at avoiding collisions between military and civilian aircraft in the air. The “collision ...

A test pilot who made the jump from the now fifty-year-old F-16 to the new F-35 stealth fighter told Business Insider that it is a wildly different experience. Think about the informational overload ...