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Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II is the most expensive military fighter plane ever produced at US$109 million per craft plus $6.6 million in annual operational costs – and the helmet you need to fly it is one of the most impressive features.

Boeing's MQ-25 T1 Stingray drone has successfully aerially refueled a US Navy F-35C Lightning II fighter jet for the first time, demonstrating that the robotic aircraft can support the 5th-generation fighter during carrier operations.

Ever since the F-22 was introduced in 2005, it's been recognized as one of the most capable fighter planes in the world. However, it isn't very good at directly sharing data with anything other than other F-22s. Project Hydra is changing that.

In a recent test of two major US defense initiatives, an F-35A Lightning II has dropped a mock refurbished B61-12 nuclear bomb for the first time. The bomb was released from an internal bay while the stealth fighter was flying at supersonic speed.

15 years in the making, Australia's new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter made a big splash at the 2017 Australian International Air Show and Aerospace & Defence Expo. Enjoy our huge photo gallery from the event as it opens to the public today.

The F-35B Lightning II fighter will not be making its international public début the Royal International Air Tattoo due to the grounding of the entire F-35 fleet after a runway incident at Elgin Air Force Base.

After the first vertical landing of the F-35B in 2011 and its first night-time vertical landing in April of this year, the two feats have been combined in the first night-time vertical landing at sea of the short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) variant of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II.

The conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) version of the Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35A, completed its first in-flight weapons release on October 16.

The U.S. Air Force's F-35A Joint Strike Fighter has made a successful test flight equipped with an external weapons load.

Lockheed Martin has select ed BAE Systems to develop substitute flight helmet for the F-35 program.

The F-35B Joint Strike Fighter has successfully completed it first at-sea vertical landing.

Eglin Air Force Base's 33rd Fighter Wing has taken delivery of the first F-35 Lightning II Full Mission Simulator (FMS) system that is surely the ultimate toy for hardcore flight sim fans.