The first short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) F-35 Joint Strike Fighter could begin powered-lift testing on the hover pit at Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth, Texas, plant as early as this week.

Despite the need to modernize, Spain shelves F-35 plans, leaving its Navy without a STOVL replacement. The purchase of F-35 Lightning II aircraft, the fifth-generation American stealth fighter, for ...

Heat management is one of the great challenges of modern fighter jet engineering. Reducing the Infrared signature from the heat exhaust is one of the key aspects of modern stealth aircraft design, on ...

Lockheed Martin flew the second short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing (Stovl) F-35B Joint Strike Fighter for the first time on Feb. 25. Aircraft BF-2 will be used from conventional up-and-away flight ...

Singapore plans to operate a handful of both the conventional F-35A and the short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) F-35B. The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is set to receive its first US-made ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 16 (Reuters) - The first short-takeoff, vertical landing version of Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 fighter plane arrived Sunday at a U.S. air base in southern Maryland, paving the way for ...

US President Trump may allow Turkey back into the F-35 fighter jet program. This development follows Turkey's acquisition of ...

How the F-35B's lift fan allows NATO jets to operate from Finnish roads and why that capability matters near Russia.

The US State Department has approved a potential USD2.75 billion Foreign Military Sale (FMS) of Lockheed Martin F-35B short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) Joint Strike Fighters (JSFs) as well ...

Click to open image viewer. Short takeoff/vertical landing variant to be used by U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marines and the United Kingdom, equipped with a shaft-driven lift fan propulsion system which ...