F-35

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USMC deemed the crash was caused by pilot error but recommended that no punitive actions be taken

A collection of our best posts of the week in beyond cars

The jet had refueled at a New Mexico airbase before crashing into a hillside

Emergency dispatch struggled to comprehend the pilot's plea for help

Call off the local search party, the Marines found their $90 million jet.

The mega expensive fighter jet is somewhere in South Carolina

In December, a $100 million F-35 crashed during a vertical-landing attempt. It was the third F-35 crash in 2022.

Lockheed Martin said the pilot made a successful ejection before the plane hit the ground at the Naval Air Station…

A magnet inside the F-35's jet engine uses a Chinese-made metal alloy that might run afoul of laws specifying where…

You can give the military an unlimited budget and over 14 years to make a good airplane and they’ll come back with…

Japan, which at the start of World War II was the proprietor of the world’s mightiest aircraft carrier fleet, is…

A year ago, then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis ordered America’s air forces to achieve what seemed like an…

This week, the United States announced its intention to sell Taiwan a fleet of new F-16 fighter jets. The sale…

The American government has given Turkey the boot, officially removing the country from the F-35 Lightning II…

The F-35’s myriad problems are really now just a running gag. But its latest ones are wild, ranging from buyers…

Countries across the Asia-Pacific are not—repeat not—buying the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter because of China. That’s…

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is being sold to the U.S. military and the air forces of thirteen allies under a…

The F-35 Lightning II, a jet capable of doing all the things fighter jets normally do, may take on the new mission…

The F-35 that’s supposed to form the backbone of the western world’s air forces for the next couple decades already…