Norway's Kongsberg has been awarded a contract to supply components for F-35 Lots 20-22 production, extending its supply ...
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F-35 upgrade delays left new jets short of combat gains

The F-35’s modernization problem is no longer about building airframes. It is about whether the software and computing ...
F-35 TR-3 software upgrades stalled in testing, delaying new combat capability and raising cybersecurity concerns.
The F-35 TR-3 crisis highlights a shift in 2026 military readiness: software is now the primary "failure point" rather than ...
Airman 1st Class James Meredith applies precision tape on an F-35A Lightning II at RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom, March 20, 2025. (SrA Seleena Muhammad-Ali/Air Force) LONDON — After encountering ...
Radar mountings in the nose of the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter are different for the current AN/APG-81 by Northrop Grumman and the future AN/APG-85 radar, also by Northrop Grumman–a difference which ...
A Pentagon intelligence report says China could try to acquire advanced F-35 technology in Saudi Arabia if the Trump administration sells jets to the kingdom. By Edward Wong and Eric Schmitt Reporting ...
Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Sharren Haskel, has publicly stated Israel will not allow the transfer of Israeli-developed technology embedded in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to Türkiye, even if ...
As of August 2025, Lockheed Martin, the aircraft’s manufacturer, has delivered more than 1,215 F-35 stealth fighter jets of all types. Today, the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jet is the most ...
Every F-35 delivered to the U.S. military last year by Lockheed Martin was behind schedule by an average of seven months, a government watchdog found, but contractors kept millions in “incentive fees” ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A US Marine Corps F-35 takes off from the former Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, October 29, 2025. (photo ...