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The F-35 Stealth Fighter Is An ‘Unmitigated Disaster’

The F-35 program is under renewed fire as its total lifecycle cost estimate has ballooned past $2 trillion. -A 2024 GAO report highlighted a 44% surge in sustainment costs, while a new September 2025 ...
After losing the 6th-generation F-47 NGAD contract to Boeing, Lockheed Martin is not protesting. Instead, CEO Jim Taiclet is ...
Doing anything for 5,000 hours without a mistake is great, much less flying an F-35. And an entire squadron having zero ...
A House of Commons committee has been told that planning and construction of new facilities for the RCAF's new F-35s is ...
Erdoğan and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a deal worth up to £8 billion (approximately $10.7 billion) for 20 U.K ...
The win comes after Lockheed Martin in July cleared its backlog of F-35s stored in long-term parking due to software problems ...
Lockheed Martin has begun the “engineering analysis” around adding sixth-generation features to the company’s ...
The F-35 program is delaying some of its planned Block 4 upgrades as it focuses on delivering capabilities as early as 2031. (A1C Eli Rose/Air Force) The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program is scaling ...
Every F-35 delivered to the U.S. military last year by Lockheed Martin was behind schedule by an average of seven months, a government watchdog found, but contractors kept millions in “incentive fees” ...
BAE Systems debuted the Aircraft Maintenance Worker Program in October 2024, with more than 50 interested candidates, and the ...
The beleaguered F-35 program has yet another problem on its hands. Actually, make that 719 problems. A recent report from the Pentagon’s internal watchdog reveals that the next gen fighter jet is ...