The F-35B is a thoroughly American aircraft, and while its design is independent, some analysts have noted similarities to ...

A US F-35B Lightning II makes the first vertical landing on a flight deck at sea aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) on October 3, 2011. Photo: IC As China is reportedly building more ...

How the F-35B's lift fan allows NATO jets to operate from Finnish roads and why that capability matters near Russia.

The Lockheed Martin's F-35B Lightning II short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) variant has demonstrated during testing that it produces excess vertical thrust - more than required to carry out its ...

Almost one year ago today (on Jan. 20, 2012), citing the progress the F-35B STOVL (Short take off vertical landing) variant made in 2011, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta rescinded probation for the ...

BEIJING—Avic’s preliminary development of technology for a short-takeoff-vertical-landing (Stovl) fighter, discussed by state media this week, probably means that the Chinese military has some ...

Pratt & Whitney’s F135 powerplant for the Lockheed Martin F-35 suffered a second turbine blade failure on 4 February, the same day the US Department of Defense tried for a third time to cancel the ...

On Oct. 30, the first Italian F-35B, the first assembled outside the US, carried out its first flight in short-take and vertical landing mode (STOVL) from Cameri airfield, home of the Final Assembly ...

Flight testing of Lockheed Martin's short take-off and vertical landing F-35B will be confined to conventional up-and-away flying until Pratt & Whitney can fully clear its F135 engine for STOVL ...

The Japanese Ministry of Defense announced formally its decision to select the U.S. F-35B stealth fighter as the country’s short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft. The decision was ...