Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is introducing a bill on Thursday that would hold defense contractors and the Department of Defense accountable for the myriad failures of the F-35 strike fighter jet — the most expensive weapons program in history that has been plagued with problems and cost overruns since its inception, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
The government of Prime Minister Kishida Fumio on Tuesday relaxed Japan’s export controls on defense equipment.
A court ordered the Dutch government to halt the export of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel, citing a risk of violating international law.
Supercarrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower will need to return to U.S. and the UK is ready to replace her with a British carrier, minister says.
The Czech Republic´s government signed an agreement with the United States on Monday to acquire 24 U.S. F-35 fighter jets.
The Biden administration has approved the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey after Ankara ratified Sweden’s membership in NATO.
A court will rule Friday on whether to force the Dutch government to stop supplying parts for F-35 fighter jets being used by Israel.
The defense ministers of Japan, Britain and Italy signed an agreement to establish a joint organization to develop a new advanced fighter.
Groups have filed a legal challenge with Britain´s High Court calling for the U.K. to stop granting licenses for weapons exports to Israel.
Military officials located a debris field in South Carolina one day after a Marine F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter jet went missing.
Marine Corps Commandant Eric Smith on Monday issued a two-day aviation stand-down for all Marine aviation units inside and outside the United States after an F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter jet went missing the day before.
A Marine F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter jet has gone missing near South Carolina, according to a post by Joint Base Charleston on Sunday.
The U.S. State Department on Wednesday approved a $5 billion sale of advanced F-35 fighter jets to South Korea.
Four F-35 fighter jets landed Thursday at an airbase in Denmark to replace aging fleet of F-16s, some of which have been promised to Ukraine.
The United States and Turkey held their largest joint military exercise in seven years last week, including Turkish F-16 fighters flying alongside American F-18s and a port call by the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford.
Israel’s testing and use of the new American-made jet fighter platform, the F-35, helped uncover and solve several glitches that otherwise would have been an obstacle to the deployment and sale of the system.
Israel will purchase a third squadron of 25 F-35 Lightning II aircraft from U.S. manufacturer Lockheed Martin, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced Sunday.
Russia vowed to destroy all jets donated after Poland and Slovakia, backed by equipment and finance from the U.S. announced deliveries.
The United States showed off its F-35 fighter, B-1B bomber, and other advanced warplanes at an air show in Bengaluru this week to tempt India away from its long-standing, and increasingly awkward, reliance on Russian military hardware.
A pair of F-35s stationed in northern Europe were dispatched to intercept a trio of Russian warplanes, including two jet fighters.
Moscow has slammed suggestions that the West should send fighter jets to Ukraine, labelling the idea that such a transfer of weapons might not escalate tensions “absurd”.
French President Emmanuel Macron has said that he will not rule out sending fighter jets to Ukraine, reports have claimed.
An American F-35B Lightning II was being towed on the ground at the Kadena Air Base in Okinawa when its front wheel failed.
After claims China is recruiting former UK combat pilots through a company in South Africa, attention is turning to Navy and Army veterans.
China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday gloated that a waiver from the U.S. government to take delivery on F-35 fighter jets exposed America’s “dependence on Chinese rare-earth products” and demonstrated that China can bring the U.S. military to heel whenever it wishes by choosing to “limit the export of such strategic resources to safeguard its national security.”
The Pentagon on Wednesday halted delivery of F-35 jet fighters because investigators discovered a magnet in the engine system was manufactured using materials from China that did not comply with U.S. import laws.
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has made dramatic developments aimed at preparing for an attack on Iran, including integrating a precision one-ton bomb in the belly of its F-35s, and updating the stealth fighter jets for long-haul flights direct to the Islamic Republic.
Germany unveiled plans to buy dozens of US-made F-35 fighter jets, as part of a multi-billion-euro push to modernise its armed forces.
Footage leaked and reported by several British media outlets show a British F-35B fighter jet failing to take off from the supercarrier HMS Queen Elizabeth and dropping into the Mediterranean.
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that his country hopes to increase defense cooperation with NATO ally Spain through the purchase of a second aircraft carrier and possibly a submarine.
British warships billed as the “largest concentration of maritime and air power to leave the U.K. in a generation” will depart next month.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday he is looking to a compliant U.S. President-elect Joe Biden to right a “serious wrong” and allow Ankara to purchase F-35 fighter jets to work alongside its new Russian air defense systems despite Washington’s previous repeated objections.
The U.S. State Department on Tuesday notified Congress of its plans to sell 50 stealth F-35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates as part of a wider arms package worth over $23 billion, with the goal of deterring Iran.
The United States and United Arab Emirates hope to reach an initial agreement on the sale of F-35 stealth fighter jets to Abu Dhabi by early December, the Reuters news agency reported Tuesday.
The USS America leads the next generation of amphibious warfare, equipped with as many as 13 F-35s.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Poland is signing a $4.6 billion deal with the United States on Friday for the purchase of 32 fighter jets as the European country looks to enhance its air defence on NATO’s eastern flank at a time of increased Russian military activity.
The U.S. Air Force launched a continuous wave of 52 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters in a massive combat power exercise at Hill Air Force Base.
A media outlet in Turkey reported Monday the country’s military is to begin testing Russian-made S-400 air defense systems, despite threats of sanctions from its NATO allies.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that when he meets with U.S. President Donald Trump this week, his agenda will include Turkey’s relationship with Russia, complaints about Syrian Kurdish militia forces remaining in the “safe area” Turkey wants to carve out near its border, and Turkey’s long-stalled extradition request for exiled cleric and Erdogan arch-enemy Fethullah Gulen.
China will dominate the next generation of telecommunications infrastructure in the absence of U.S. industrial policy to help finance construction of a nationwide 5G network, said retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Rick Manning.
