Curious about the flap behind the F-35 Lightning cockpit? Learn what it does, why it opens, and how it supports the jet’s ...

C. During the show, US Navy Rear Adm. Michael “Buzz” Donnelly, director of the air warfare division within the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, ...

The aircraft is accompanied by an F/A-18 Super Hornet and F-35C Lightning II, both from the carrier. Originally posted on Instagram by user @ryans_warbirds, the video soon attracted attention and ...

Marines recently carried out the service's first combat strikes using the F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter during air missions against Houthi targets near the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

Flying strike missions alongside the Super Hornet is the newer and arguably most advanced fighter jet, the F-35C Lightning II. It's the Navy's first stealth aircraft and is intended to replace the ...

USS Nimitz is expected to spend her final deployment operating in the Indo-Pacific, as her sister vessel, USS Carl Vinson, has been ordered to the Middle East to support and replace USS Harry S.

This photograph released by the U.S. Navy shows an F-35C Lightning II launch off the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier while operating in the Middle East on April 10, 2025. This photograph released ...

Two training squadrons and nine operational squadrons are now flying the F-35 Lightning II jet, a fifth-generation ... a dozen flying the F-35B and six flying the F-35C. The two Reserve squadrons ...

US officials so far have not said where the talks will be held. An F-35C Lightning II launch off the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier while operating in the Middle East (Petty Officer 2nd Class ...

a Russian Ilyushin II-38N “Dolphin” patrol and anti-submarine aircraft is shown conducting a low-altitude pass by the Vinson escorted by a Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet and a F-35C Lightning II ...

(Petty Officer 3rd Class Nathan Jordan/U.S. Navy via AP) This photograph released by the U.S. Navy shows an F-35C Lightning II launch off the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier while operating in ...