Business Insider recently sat down with a test pilot for the F-35 stealth fighter jet. She explained what it was like to jump from flying older F-16s to the fifth-generation aircraft. The biggest ...

Pentagon responds to damning test pilot report. In this image released by the U.S. Navy courtesy of Lockheed Martin, the U.S. Navy variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35C, conducts a test ...

When a single F-35 used sensors, on-board computers and targeting systems to find, track and destroy two airborne drones at the same time with air-to-air missiles, the emerging 5th Gen fighter ...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – F-35 critics often point to the Pentagon's decision to start building the fifth-generation fighter before design and testing is complete as the root of the program's ...

Jon Beesley remembers being in the cockpit as if it were yesterday. The 66-year-old retired Lockheed Martin test pilot can still see the thousands of people watching as he taxied the F-35 down a ...

Russia's war on Ukraine has shown what air warfare over a modern battlefield looks like. Neither side has the F-35, but it is designed for this environment, former test pilot Billie Flynn said. F-35s ...

Aug. 12 (UPI) --F-35 fighter planes at California's Edwards Air Force Base have a very low readiness rate, a non-governmental watchdog said. The Project on Government Oversight's Center for Defense ...

According to a report from the Project on Government Oversight, the F-35 Lightning II test fleet was only 8.7% fully mission capable in June. The F-35 has been plagued with problems, including issues ...

A test pilot who made the jump from the now fifty-year-old F-16 to the new F-35 stealth fighter told Business Insider that it is a wildly different experience. Think about the informational overload ...