Key Points and Summary - Retiring USAF Chief Gen. David Allvin says Boeing has begun building the first F-47—the Air Force’s sixth-generation NGAD fighter—with a first flight targeted for 2028.

Finnish Air Force personnel are currently undergoing training at Eglin AFB, while extensive infrastructure upgrades and renovation works are underway at home to support the F-35s. The Ilmavoimat ...

Airframe BF-01 performed the F-35's first vertical landing on Mar. 18, 2010, and the first vertical takeoff on May 10, 2013, at NAS Patuxent River. The first F-35B Lightning II STOVL (Short Take-Off ...

The last flight of the first F-35B Lightning II covered more than 500 miles at speeds considerably slower than Mach 1.6. And in this case it had to hitch a ride. The airframe of the fighter jet, known ...

The timely introduction of NGAD and all its related components is paramount for US national security interests. Progress surrounding the US Air Force’s Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Australian and U.S. F-35s were present at Singapore Airshow 2026, as Singapore waits expectantly for its first F-35Bs later this ...

FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In a ceremony today at Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) F-35 production facility, esteemed government and military leaders from the United States and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. _Israeli F-35 Downs Iranian Jet – First F-35 Kill Jet image by IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0 The downing occurred in the ...

The new training center for F-35 fighter pilots—the first outside of the United States—is expected to be operational by 2028. Last November, the Italian Air Force announced plans to create an ...