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 ...

The UK government has officially denied that the Royal Air Force’s F-35 fighter jets have any kind of “kill switch” that would allow the United States or the manufacturer to remotely disable the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

As combat drones continue to move from the laboratory to the battlefield, the US Navy is exploring how to use a digitally simulated F-35 Lightning II aircraft to develop new tactics to go with the new ...

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 ...