Every stealth aircraft before the F-35 paid a brutal price for invisibility: fragile radar-absorbing skin that degraded ...

A surprisingly simple innovation is helping tackle one of the F-35's most expensive risks, saving time, money, and preventing ...

The Government Accountability Office’s new report on the stealth fighter was marked ‘Controlled Unclassified Information,’ ...

F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter readiness rates have slipped in recent years despite billions in investments.

The F-35 was not built to win dogfights, but to operate smoothly at long ranges and over long periods of time. The F-35 is often compared to the F-16 or the F-22, nimble aircraft with world-class ...

The F-35 has had a series of technical problems in the jet’s development. The Air Force, which plans to buy 1,763 of the planes to replace the F-16 and A-10, declared the stealth jet ready for combat ...

A Government Accountability Office report found that the F-35’s mission-capable rate had fallen from 67 percent at the start of the decade to 44 percent today. Despite being the most advanced fighter ...