As of January, nearly 1,300 F-35 stealth fighter jets have been delivered to the U.S. and its allies and partners.

The skies of the 20th century were awash with the roars of fighter aircraft, and few, if any, nation produced as many impressive machines as the United States. From the 1940s onwards, the US created ...

No modern aircraft has been as politically or industrially successful as the F-35 Lightning II. Conceived in the 1990s as a cost-sharing platform capable of performing as a jack of all trades, the ...