Photos show a US F-35B operating on Japan's newly converted destroyer-turned-aircraft carrier off the Californian coast.

The US Navy's variant of the F-35 Lightning II has completed its first successful landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier. The test was conducted yesterday, as an F-35C snagged one of the four ...

The F-35 is a byproduct of a world order in which ... The F-35B was designed with short takeoff/vertical landing (VTOL) for the Marines. In 2001, the Pentagon chose Lockheed Martin over Boeing ...

The F-35 will replace AV-8B Harrier IIs in the Marine Corps inventory. Designed to operate from austere bases and a range of air-capable ships with its short takeoff/vertical landing capability ...

The single-engine, single-seat F-35 will be manufactured in three versions ... and a short-takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) version for the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.K. Royal Air Force and ...

Japan’s F-35 program is for 105 F-35As and 42 F-35Bs ... the Ministry of Defense revised their decision and chose to conduct vertical landing training at Nyutabaru Air Base instead.

The fifth-generation jet is derived from Lockheed’s infamous Skunk Works division which aimed to develop an Advanced Short Take-Off/Vertical Landing (ASTOVL). The F-35’s most significant ...

Lockheed Martin's AGM-158C Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) has made a captive-carry flight aboard an F-35B, the short-take-off-and-vertical-landing (STOVL) ...

Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Pax River ITF completed an initial flight test integrating the AGM-158C LRASM onto the F-35B Lightning II, following the first test on the F-35C in September 2024.