A new report from the Canadian Forces College warns that the F-35’s high sustainment costs and poor mission-capable rates ...

The F-35’s current, trouble-prone F135 engine, now requiring a multi-billion-dollar fix, is a direct result of “penny-wise, ...

The win comes after Lockheed Martin in July cleared its backlog of F-35s stored in long-term parking due to software problems ...

But the cost to Canada for F-35s is already increasing. In June, Auditor General Karen Hogan issued a report that Canada’s ...

A F-35 pilot spent 50 minutes on a conference call mid-air with engineers to solve a problem with a $200 million jet before it plummeted onto the runway at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska, forcing ...

An F-35 Lightning II fighter jet that went down at Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks in January crashed after attempts to fix frozen landing gear left the plane uncontrollable, according to an Air ...

PARIS—Lockheed Martin says it has completed work on a long-delayed upgrade for the F-35, known at Technology Refresh 3, but the company is still awaiting formal approval from the government. “What we ...

A total of 72 aircraft were parked at Lockheed Martin’s facilities after the Technology Refresh 3 experienced severe glitches, following which the Pentagon halted deliveries in July 2023. Lockheed ...

An Air Force F-35 pilot was on the phone midair with Lockheed Martin engineers for nearly an hour attempting to resolve a landing gear issue before ultimately having to eject from the jet, according ...

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TIME TO DIET Almost all tactical aviation programs reach this point somewhere in their lives, and now the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is running into weight problems. When Lockheed Martin ...