“There is no kill switch.” The Joint Program Office’s direct shoot-down of a long-standing rumor surrounding the F-35 Lightning II was intended to put the rumor to rest. But in the universe of ...

With heightened tensions between Europe and the United States over NATO and Ukraine, the myth of an F-35 “kill switch”, which would supposedly allow the Pentagon to disable foreign-operated F-35s, is ...

At the controls of flying supercomputer.

Claims about modifying the F-35’s software raise legitimate sovereignty questions. But cybersecurity architecture, cryptography, and sustainment realities define strict limits on what can and cannot ...

LONDON—A Lockheed Martin F-35 has off-boarded data to a non-U.S. command-and-control system for the first time through joint testing by the company’s Skunk Works and the UK Royal Air Force’s (RAF) ...

As combat drones continue to move from the laboratory to the battlefield, the US Navy is exploring how to use a digitally simulated F-35 Lightning II aircraft to develop new tactics to go with the new ...

The F-35 was not built to win dogfights, but to operate smoothly at long ranges and over long periods of time. The F-35 is often compared to the F-16 or the F-22, nimble aircraft with world-class ...