Canada was long expected to buy the F-35 Lightning II to replace its aging CF-18 fighters—but political tensions with America, and a surprising offer from Sweden, have upended these assumptions.
The F-35’s supply chains and software are already so dependent on the United States that a “kill switch” is essentially redundant.
Ottawa may be facing a new pressure tactic from the White House after the American ambassador to the Canadian government ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says it was “unfair” to banish his country from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program and has called for Ankara to be readmitted to the project. In his first ...
The United States has delivered an unusually blunt warning to its closest neighbour, telling Ottawa that if the planned purchase of new F-35 fighter jets falls apart, Washington is prepared to send ...
The aircraft, known as AF-3, will belong to the Cyber Systems Integration Lab under the 48th Cyberspace Test Squadron at ...
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Ignore the X-32's big mouth: The JSF pick was really about networks

Was the Joint Strike Fighter program a jet choice or doctrine choice and have the airframe choose the jet? The defeat of the Boeing X-32 to what was later to become the F-35 is usually seen as loss of ...
An elite U.S. Navy test and evaluation squadron, the VX-9 “Vampires” based out of NAWS China Lake, are now flying the U.S.
President Donald Trump again stated that the United States might sell fifth-generation Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II stealth strike fighters to Turkey as 2025 came to a close. Trump has repeatedly ...
Denmark has retired its F-16 fleet, becoming the latest European nation to rely solely on Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter as its frontline combat aircraft.
The Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force (RNLASF) has trained for the dispersed operation of its Lockheed Martin F-35A ...
Lockheed Martin's F-35 production ramped up in 2025. Find out how many jets were delivered.