Three U.S. Navy F-35C Lightning II fighter jets conduct a formation flight over Eglin Air Force Base, FL on February 1, 2019.

The F-35's development costs are well over $1 trillion, but then again it's really three planes in one. Here's what sets each apart from the others.

The Navy made aviation history Nov. 3 as an F-35C Lightning II carrier variant Joint Strike Fighter conducted its first arrested landing aboard an aircraft carrier off the coast of San Diego. Navy ...

LEMOORE, Calif. (AP) — A pilot was safe after an F-35C fighter jet crashed near a central California naval installation on Wednesday, officials said. Authorities received a report that a military jet ...

A U.S. Navy F-35C fighter jet crashed near Naval Air Station Lemoore in central California on Wednesday evening. The pilot successfully ejected from the aircraft and is safe, with no other personnel ...

Today, the US military is locked into a fifth-generation warplane that is overpriced, underperforms, and periodically falls out of the sky without ever meeting the enemy in combat. In what is becoming ...

The USS Gerald R. Ford’s deployment to the Caribbean, but away from the fragile situation in the Middle East, raises serious questions about America’s military readiness.

A naval F-35C crashed in California on Wednesday near Naval Air Station Lemoore, the second crash this year of one of the world's most advanced warplanes. NAS Lemoore Public Affairs Officer Sarah ...