The F-35B Lightning II isn’t just a fighter jet — it’s a strategic game-changer rewriting the rules of Pacific warfare. With ...

A US F-35B Lightning II makes the first vertical landing on a flight deck at sea aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) on October 3, 2011. Photo: IC As China is reportedly building more ...

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program continues to rack up the milestones with the F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) variant breaking the sound barrier for the first time. The F-35B, ...

The Lockheed Martin's F-35B Lightning II short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) variant has demonstrated during testing that it produces excess vertical thrust - more than required to carry out its ...

A direct predecessor of the more famous Harrier, the Hawker-Siddeley Kestrel was an experimental STOVL aircraft developed in Britain during the early 1960s, designed to investigate the potential of ...

Short-takeoff-and vertical-landing (Stovl) Lockheed Martin F-35Bs returned to flight on Feb. 12 after being grounded for almost a month following the Jan. 18 failure of a fueldraulic hose to the ...

Pratt & Whitney’s F135 powerplant for the Lockheed Martin F-35 suffered a second turbine blade failure on 4 February, the same day the US Department of Defense tried for a third time to cancel the ...