First Female Air Force F-35 Test Pilot Marks Mission Milestone Maj. Rachael Winiecki, of the 461st Flight Test Squadron, became the first female test pilot to lead an F-35 mission.
Navy's F-35C on Track to Be Combat Ready Next Month The U.S. Navy is on track to reach critical milestones and declare its F-35 Joint Strike Fighters ready for combat next month...
Navy Achieves New F-35 Fighter Jet Milestone on USS Carl Vinson The Strike Fighter Squadron 147 "Argonauts" completed carrier qualifications Wednesday.
GAO: Pentagon's Aircraft Readiness Goals Are a Stretch The GAO told lawmakers the Navy and Marine Corps may have difficulty meeting Mattis' goal of an 80 percent readiness rate.
Navy Plans to Deactivate F-35s at Eglin Air Force Base The Navy plans to move its Eglin based F-35 Lightning aircraft to California.
Air Force Proposes F-35 Fighters Be Stationed at Tyndall The U.S. Air Force plans to refurbish Tyndall in hopes of stationing three squadron's worth of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.
F-35 Tests Out Tech that Keeps Pilots from Crashing Into the Ground A technology that can help prevent pilots from colliding with the ground has begun its initial testing on the F-35 JSF.
Airmen Struck by Lightning While Servicing F-35 Two airmen were indirectly struck by lightning while servicing an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Wednesday evening.
More Marine F-35Bs Likely Sidelined Over New Safety Concerns Some F-35s will require additional inspections after investigators identified a possible problem with two fuel supply tubes.
More F-35 Joint Strike Fighters May Soon Be Headed to Eglin Air Force Base The U.S. Air Force is weighing the addition of another F-35 Joint Strike Fighter squadron at Eglin Air Force Base.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...