Tag: F-35

In this July 7, 2006, file photo, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is shown after it was unveiled in a ceremony in Fort Worth, Texas. (AP Photo)Â

National Security

History books will only care if F-35 works, officials say

Jacqueline Klimas · August 12, 2015 4:44 pm

F-35 fighter declared ready to deploy

David Brown · July 31, 2015 8:28 pm

The F-35: Pretty and (Real) Expensive But Can It Fight?

Geoffrey Norman · July 7, 2015 6:29 pm

Watch: F-35B joint strike fighter completes first ski-jump launch

David Brown · June 23, 2015 5:10 pm

A sailor aboard the USS Wasp Â signals to the pilot of an F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter to land as it arrives for the first phase of operational testing, May 18, 2015.Â (U.S. Marine Corps photo/Lance Cpl. Remington Hall)

National Security

F-35 jump jet inches closer to fleet debut

Tara Copp · May 26, 2015 9:00 am

In its fiscal year 2016 budget, the Air Force estimates it would save $4.2 billion by retiring 164 of the A-10. The cuts would remove all A-10 active squadrons and cull 21 assigned to the Air National Guard. (iStock)

National Security

Retiring the A-10 wouldn’t save as much as promised

Tara Copp · February 24, 2015 10:00 am

Senators said a recent watchdog report showing that the Pentagon skewed statistics on the A-10 Thunderbolt's performance in Afghanistan seemed to be deliberately cherry-picked to support the retirement of the aircraft, and they pledged to defend the program in this year's budget request. (AP/Lee Jin-man)

National Security

Senators: Air Force skewed data on A-10

Tara Copp · February 11, 2015 1:02 pm

In this image released by the U.S. Navy on Friday, Dec. 5, 2014, a fighter jet launches from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) as the ship conducts flight operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations supporting Operation Inherent Resolve targeting Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo/Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class John Philip Wagner Jr., U.S. Navy)

National Security

Next-gen fighter: Unmanned with a heavy punch

Tara Copp · February 4, 2015 5:58 pm

An F-35B fighter jet, the U.S. Marine Corps variant of the F-35 from the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Ariz., taxis off the runway as it arrives at Luke Air Force Base Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, in Goodyear, Ariz. The decision to base F-35s in Britain is expected to boost cooperation with the Royal Air Force. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Pentagon to close 15 European bases

Charles Hoskinson · January 8, 2015 4:48 pm

Unloved Warthog lives to fight another day

Charles Hoskinson · December 8, 2014 10:00 am

The Pentagon plans to spend $351 billion for more than 2,400 F-35s, and another $1 trillion to operate them over 50 years. (Department of Defense photo)

GAO questions if the Pentagon can afford the F-35

Charles Hoskinson · September 25, 2014 3:53 am

Sen. Marco Rubio. AP Photo

Washington Secrets

Rubio: Obama weakened military, ‘stomped the brake’ on U.S. strength

Paul Bedard · September 17, 2014 8:11 pm