EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, California—With deliveries of new F-35s on hold while bugs are worked out of a planned upgrade, the plane’s lead test squadron is doing its part to spot problems where the new ...

We talked about the F-35’s current and future capabilities; differences with the F-16 in the SEAD and CAS missions; and much more, with Lockheed Martin’s test pilot Monessa “Siren” Balzhiser.

A Lockheed Martin F-35A stealth fighter from the US Air Force (USAF) test dropped multiple inert versions of a nuclear bomb in August. The USA’s Sandia National Laboratories, a Honeywell subsidiary ...

The Israeli Air Force Flight Testing Center (FTC) at Tel-Nof AFB received on Nov. 11, 2020, the first F-35I Adir test aircraft outside the United States. The one-of-a-kind aircraft, with serial 924 ...

An F-35A Lightning II pulls away from a KC-10 Extender after a refueling exercise above the Atlantic Ocean on July 12, 2018. (Airman 1st Class Alexander Cook/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON — The F-35 ...

The U.S. Navy has concluded a number of weapons load tests involving the supersonic fifth-generation F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter aboard the America-class amphibious assault ship, USS ...

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is undergoing some more extreme weather testing before additional jets fly across the pond for permanent stationing in Norway. The A ...

The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin are testing to see how the F-35 Lightning II holds up in extreme weather conditions. The manufacturer said Monday an F-35 demonstrated handling qualities during ...

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will not complete its already-delayed formal operational test phase this fall because of a setback in the testing process, according to a source close to the program.