THERMAL, Calif. -- A Marine Corps F-35 fighter jet crashed in Imperial County, California, after clipping the wing of a Marine KC-130 refueling tanker during a mid-air refueling, according to a Marine ...
Business Insider spoke to a boom operator about their responsibilities aboard a KC-135 tanker at a base in England.
B-Roll from F-35A Lightning II aircraft November 2024, at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona. The 56th Fighter Wing trains ...
U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning IIs assigned to the 4th Fighter Squadron conduct aerial refueling with a KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 909th Air Refueling Squadron during a refueling mission in ...
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.
An unclassified U.S. Air Force report, mandated by the 2025 NDAA, included figures of the required combat fleet, calling for an increase of nearly 300 ...
Variants within the same plane model, incompatible support equipment and a lack of shared data create barriers to interoperability, a Rand report warns.
Drop tanks come with one notable drawback: they can degrade the F-35’s stealthy profile to the point of compromising it entirely. Range has been a key factor in combat aircraft effectiveness since ...