Thanks to a congressional rescue and an 11th-hour change of heart by the Pentagon’s civilian leadership, the contract to develop the U.S. Navy’s next carrier-based fighter is now on track to be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A U.S. air force F-35A fighter performs over the Ohio River during the Owensboro Air Show, on Sept. 14, 2024, in Owensboro, Ky.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump has brought up the possibility of changing the designation of the U.S. Air Force's F-47 sixth-generation ...

Canada’s interest in the GCAP program could amount to a rebuke of the United States, which has urged Ottawa to purchase the fifth-generation F-35 and sixth-generation F-47 systems instead.

While no US allies could hope to rival the USAF, they are modernizing their air forces with F-35s and their own domestic ...

A government watchdog agency has “significant concern” about the affordability of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, at more than $390 billion the most costly weapons program in the Pentagon’s history, ...

Lockheed Martin reported producing a record-breaking number of F-35s in 2025, and expanding its orders abroad—even as some nations have scaled back or withdrawn from the program. Aerospace giant ...

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, with its many variants, is likely the best-known fifth-generation fighter plane flying today — at least when it comes to Western nations. As of 2026, 1,000 F-35s ...