Key Points and Summary - Fears of a secret F-35 "kill switch" are a myth, but the reality of American control is causing European allies to panic and turn away. -The F-35 is a software-driven "flying ...

“There is no kill switch.” The Joint Program Office’s direct shoot-down of a long-standing rumor surrounding the F-35 Lightning II was intended to put the rumor to rest. But in the universe of ...

The head of capability for the Royal Australian Air Force says his service has no qualms about the reliability of its US-made Lockheed Martin F-35A fighters. Speaking at the Avalon air show near ...

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) speaks during the 214th plenary session of the 20th legislative period in the German Parliament (Bundestag). Lawmakers in ...

Multiple governments officially allied with the United States have begun to openly question whether Washington can be considered a reliable supplier of arms, in light of the USA’s recent geopolitical ...

An F-35C of VX-9 assigned to the United Operational Test Team at Edwards AFB performed the first dual drop of externally mounted GBU-54 LJDAM bombs, engaging a remote controlled High-Speed Moving ...

LONDON—A Lockheed Martin F-35 has off-boarded data to a non-U.S. command-and-control system for the first time through joint testing by the company’s Skunk Works and the UK Royal Air Force’s (RAF) ...

The Joint Simulation Environment is playing a key role in developing tactics and operational concepts for integrating Collaborative Combat Aircraft with the F-35. Advancing the effort towards ...

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 ...

We write to you as a group of organizations from partner countries to the global F-35 jet program, and supportive organizations, calling on our governments to immediately halt all arms transfers to ...