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By Ryan Pickrell, Business Insider Dec 3, 2020

News

The Marine Corps’s first carrier-based F-35 squadron is officially ready for combat

Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 314, known as the “Black Knights,” has achieved initial operational capability

By David Roza Nov 11, 2020

Mandatory Fun

An F-35 pilot reveals why good fighter pilots never skip leg day

"I didn’t realize the importance of physical fitness for fighting G-LOC."

By Jared Keller Oct 29, 2020

Gear

This is what’s inside the Air Force’s new F-35 Arctic survival kit

“Over the years, we’ve worked with [survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialists] to develop this kit and decided what is...

By Jared Keller Oct 27, 2020

Entertainment

That one scene in ‘Live Free or Die Hard’ that revealed a real-life problem with the F-35

There are few people in the world who can go up against a Marine Corps F-35B Joint Strike Fighter with...

By Jared Keller Sep 30, 2020

News

Intense video shows fiery Marine Corps F-35 crash after colliding with a C-130

Video circulating on social media appears to show the fiery crash of a Marine Corps F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in...

By Oriana Pawlyk And Gina Harkins, Military.Com Sep 30, 2020

News

Marine Corps F-35 crashes after colliding with C-130 during refueling exercise

A Marine Corps KC-130J refueling aircraft and an F-35B Joint Strike Fighter collided during an air-to-air refueling mission in California,...

By Jared Keller Aug 20, 2020

Military Tech

Not content with F-35 debacle, the Navy is now working on a brand new fighter jet

The Defense Department may not have finished working out all the kinks in the ultra-expensive and perpetually buggy F-35 Joint...

By Task & Purpose Aug 17, 2020

Military Tech

F-35 Demonstration Team maneuvers explained: the minimum radius turn

Air Force Capt. Kristin "BEO" Wolfe, F-35 Demonstration Team pilot, explains how to execute the 'minimum radius' maneuver.

By Kyle Arnold, The Dallas Morning News Jun 23, 2020

Military Tech

The Pentagon spent $300 million on defective and missing F-35 parts over the last five years, and lawmakers are furious

A group of high-ranking Congress members is launching an investigation into Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter jet program after being told...

By Jared Keller May 21, 2020

Military Tech

The Pentagon is no longer interested in using flying lasers to stop incoming missiles

BUT WHY NOT?!

By Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel May 20, 2020

News

F-35 crashes at Eglin Air Force Base

It's the second fighter jet crash at Eglin AFB in five days

By Jared Keller Apr 28, 2020

Military Tech

The F-35 still can’t go supersonic without compromising its critical stealth tech, and the Pentagon is OK with that

The Navy and Marine Corps variants of the vaunted F-35 Joint Strike Fighter cannot maintain supersonic speeds without sustaining structural...

By Ryan Pickrell, Business Insider Apr 16, 2020

Military Tech

Manuals for Trump’s new Air Force One cost almost as much as an F-35 stealth fighter

The new instruction manuals for President Donald Trump's new Air Force One cost $84 million, close to the cost of...

By Jared Keller Mar 13, 2020

Military Tech

The F-35 still has hundreds of problems the Pentagon has no plans on fixing

The beleaguered F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is still suffering from hundreds of unresolved design flaws, according to a new report...

By David Choi, Business Insider Mar 4, 2020

Military Tech

Coronavirus fears trigger shutdown of F-35 factory in Japan

The manufacturer of the U.S.'s F-35 fifth-generation fighter will pause its production line in Japan for a week due to...

By Brock Vergakis, The Virginian-Pilot Feb 2, 2020

Entertainment

Navy F-35s, F/A-18 Super Hornet among jets performing Super Bowl flyover

The Navy will have a worldwide audience Sunday to showcase its newest warplane, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter

By Jared Keller Jan 7, 2020

Military Tech

Behold the largest F-35 elephant walk we’ve ever seen

If you've ever wondered what two fighter wings worth of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters looks like, you now have your...

By Ryan Pickrell, Business Insider Dec 19, 2019

News

Trump: America’s F-35 pilots are ‘better-looking than Tom Cruise’

"You've got to see them ... We have the F-35s. It's stealth. And, I was at one of the areas...

By Jared Keller Nov 14, 2019

Military Tech

The F-35 breaks too easily and takes too long to fix, Pentagon says

All of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter variants adopted across the Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps "are breaking more...

By Ellen Ioanes, Business Insider Sep 10, 2019

News

Air Force F-35s and F-15s obliterated an Iraqi island ‘infested’ with ISIS fighters

On September 10, US and Iraqi forces dropped 80,000 pounds of munitions on Qanus Island, in Iraq's Salah-al-Din province, to...

By Ryan Pickrell, Business Insider Aug 14, 2019

Military Tech

The Navy’s new supercarrier arresting gear can now recover all of the service’s aircraft — except the F-35

The USS Gerald R. Ford, the Navy's new supercarrier, can now land all of the service's planes, except for its...

By Ryan Pickrell, Business Insider Aug 14, 2019

Military Tech

Marine Corps F-35s practice ‘shock and awe’ strikes in the Pacific with back-to-back bombing runs

Marine Corps F-35s recently carried out the first at-sea "hot reload" of ordnance, dropping 1,000-pound bombs in the Pacific in...

By Matthew Rink, Erie Times-News Aug 7, 2019

Community

Meet the first female Marine assigned to fly the F-35C

1st Lt. Catherine Stark earned her wings Friday at a ceremony in Kingsville, Texas, and in doing so became the...

By Jared Keller Jul 30, 2019

Military Tech

The F-35 ‘is kind of like the iPhone,’ according to the Air Force’s operational testing wing commander

If it's an expensive next-generation weapon system, chances are a U.S. military official will at some point compare it to...

By Sebastien Roblin, The National Interest Jul 25, 2019

Military Tech

The F-35 reportedly can’t use its afterburners without its critical stealth tech ‘bubbling and blistering’

Apparently Navy and Marine Corps F-35 fighters have to choose between speed and stealth

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The Marine Corps’s first carrier-based F-35 squadron is officially ready for combat

An F-35 pilot reveals why good fighter pilots never skip leg day

This is what’s inside the Air Force’s new F-35 Arctic survival kit

That one scene in ‘Live Free or Die Hard’ that revealed a real-life problem with the F-35

Intense video shows fiery Marine Corps F-35 crash after colliding with a C-130

Marine Corps F-35 crashes after colliding with C-130 during refueling exercise

Not content with F-35 debacle, the Navy is now working on a brand new fighter jet

F-35 Demonstration Team maneuvers explained: the minimum radius turn

The Pentagon spent $300 million on defective and missing F-35 parts over the last five years, and lawmakers are furious

The Pentagon is no longer interested in using flying lasers to stop incoming missiles

F-35 crashes at Eglin Air Force Base

The F-35 still can’t go supersonic without compromising its critical stealth tech, and the Pentagon is OK with that

Manuals for Trump’s new Air Force One cost almost as much as an F-35 stealth fighter

The F-35 still has hundreds of problems the Pentagon has no plans on fixing

Coronavirus fears trigger shutdown of F-35 factory in Japan

Navy F-35s, F/A-18 Super Hornet among jets performing Super Bowl flyover

Behold the largest F-35 elephant walk we’ve ever seen

Trump: America’s F-35 pilots are ‘better-looking than Tom Cruise’

The F-35 breaks too easily and takes too long to fix, Pentagon says

Air Force F-35s and F-15s obliterated an Iraqi island ‘infested’ with ISIS fighters

The Navy’s new supercarrier arresting gear can now recover all of the service’s aircraft — except the F-35

Marine Corps F-35s practice ‘shock and awe’ strikes in the Pacific with back-to-back bombing runs

Meet the first female Marine assigned to fly the F-35C

The F-35 ‘is kind of like the iPhone,’ according to the Air Force’s operational testing wing commander

The F-35 reportedly can’t use its afterburners without its critical stealth tech ‘bubbling and blistering’