The U.S. Navy’s F-35C Lightning II stealth fighter has fired a Long Range Anti-Ship Missile for the first time, according to ...
The U.S. Navy, supported by Lockheed Martin, completed the first phase of the F-35C LRASM Flight Sciences Test Program after a series of integration flight tests from September 2024 to April 2026.
EADaily, June 15th, 2026. The American super-aircraft carrier Gerald Ford, built for $ 13 billion, could not take on board ...
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Why the Navy’s F-35C changed what fighter pilots actually do

What used to be essential for qualification requirements, such as… skills that, I think, can probably be cut back some ...
F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter readiness rates have slipped in recent years despite billions in investments.
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 ...
Lockheed Martin will build up to 296 F-35s as part of Lots 18 and 19, with first deliveries in 2026. Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) announced they reached a final agreement ...
The next-gen weapons of replacing machine guns.
While Air Force F-35A and Navy F-35C fighters by Lockheed Martin were in the U.S. strike package against Venezuela on Jan. 3, a December Pentagon Inspector General (IG) report highlighted continuing ...
An F-35C Lightning II, attached to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 314, prepares to make an arrested landing on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). A ...
The F-35A is the US Air Force’s variant of the Joint Strike Fighter—yet is broadly similar to the Navy’s F-35C, and could be substituted for it during training. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II ...