Maj. Rachael Winiecki, 461st Flight Test Squadron F-35 test pilot, and Airman 1st Class Heather Rice, 412th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, pose for a photo right after Winiecki landed her F ...
US Air Force and Energy Department personnel load a pair of unarmed B61-12 nuclear gravity bombs onto an F-35 at Hill Air Force Base on Aug. 19 for testing. The Energy Department and Air Force in ...
The F-35 has been tested with a new artificial intelligence-enhanced Combat Identification capability to help pilots quickly identify unknown emitters detected by its sensors. Lockheed Martin has ...
The F-35 Lightning II was used in August 2025 to successfully evaluate three B61-12 test assets during a multi-day test campaign. Sandia National Laboratories and the National Nuclear Security ...
Summary and Key Points: Journalist Georgia Gilholy evaluates the "stagnation" of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II's Technology Refresh-3 (TR-3) update. -Despite the 1,100th delivery in 2026, the ...
Key Points and Summary - Lockheed Martin, MBDA, and the F-35 Joint Program Office have completed key ground-integration tests of the Meteor ramjet-powered beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile on the ...
The F-35’s AI is not equipped to operate the plane’s weapons systems, or to make other important decisions that must be left up to the pilot. As part of “Project Overwatch,” Lockheed Martin has tested ...