U.S. Navy fighter pilot Jeff “Bangs” Fellows was out of munitions – but not out of the fight. In any other fighter jet, he might have had reason to head back to base and wait to see how the training ...

Key Points - The F-35 Lightning II's top speed of Mach 1.6 (~1,200 mph) is comparable to other fifth-generation stealth fighters like China's J-20 (Mach 1.7) and Russia's Su-57 (Mach 1.7). -While some ...

Lockheed Martin plans to develop a version of the F-35 that can fly without a pilot, according to the company’s CEO—one of many upgrades the company is pitching for the program after it lost the Air ...

In pursuit of a multirole mission, the F-35’s designers accepted trade-offs that reduced its stealth performance in exchange for significant improvements elsewhere. The US military has two stealth ...

Aviation system manufacturer Honeywell says it can deliver significant improvements to onboard power generation for the Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter, even without installing new hardware on ...