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The Navy has decided to scrap the USS Bonhomme Richard

The service has determined that it would be too costly to repair the amphibious assault ship.

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...

Navy pilot ejects safely as F/A-18E Super Hornet crashes in California

The pilot is was taken to a local medical facility for examination

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...

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,...

Lightning Strikes East China Sea

USS Bonhomme Richard, its fate uncertain, would be one of largest ships Navy has lost outside of combat

Even if the ship is saved, it will be out of action for an extended period of time, and that...

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...

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is the military's newest jet.

The Pentagon is sacrificing F-35s and other weapons systems to find $3.8 billion to fund the border wall

The Navy is sacrificing two F-35Bs, two V-22s, and one P-8A Poseidon to pay for the border wall. The Air...

The Marine Corps could deploy more F-35-laden ‘Lightning Carriers’ amid high demand for flattops, Navy secretary says

When Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer pitched sending an aircraft carrier into early retirement, he had an idea for how...

The Marine Corps’s dream of ‘Lightning Carrier’ laden with F-35s is slowly becoming a reality

The amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA-6) is currently conducting "routing operations" with 13 F-35B Lightning II joint strike fighters...

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...

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

Marine pilots eligible for up to $280,000 to keep flying with the Corps

"The aviation populations targeted are Captains (O-3s) and Majors (O-4s) within the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, F/A-18 Hornet, AV-8 Harrier,...

A bird beat up a Marine Corps F-35B fighter, causing at least $2 million in damages

A Marine Corps F-35B Joint Strike Fighter was recently forced to abort take-off after a surprise bird strike, Maj. Eric...

The Navy says its F-35C is ready for a fight. The Navy’s own data says otherwise

In February, the commander of the U.S. Naval Air Forces proclaimed that the Navy's F-35C Joint Strike Fighter was "ready...

On its first combat deployment, the Marine Corps’ F-35 bombed both the Taliban and ISIS

"Every single one of the pilots employed ordnance in theater. So, we were very busy."

Marine F-35s Grounded Again As Yet Another Frickin’ Thing Needs To Be Replaced

The trouble continues for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the aircraft with more bugs than Klendathu. A “couple dozen” Marine Corps...

From 1st Combat Strike To 1st Crash: It’s Been A Chaotic Month For The F-35

The last few weeks have been a roller coaster for the F-35, from its first combat airstrike, to its first...

Pentagon Orders Entire F-35 Fleet Grounded

The Pentagon has ordered its entire fleet of F-35 fighters to be grounded in the wake of a Marine F-35B...

Watch The Pentagon Send The F-35 Into Combat For The First Time

After years of anticipation, the Department of Defense has officially sent the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter into combat...

The F-35 Lightning II Can’t Handle Lightning

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter may be named the “Lightning II” in homage to two of Lockheed Martin's World War II-era...

‘Round-The-Clock Search And Rescue Operations’ Underway For Overboard Marine

Search and rescue efforts are ongoing for a Marine who fell overboard near the Philippines while embarked on the amphibious...

The Navy Just Quietly Sent An F-35 Carrier To The Pacific — And It Signals A Major Change

The U.S. Navy broke with its tradition of hyping up F-35 deployments by sending of the USS Essex jump-jet carrier...