- December 11th, 2025
The Finnish Air Force has reached a defining moment in its multiyear HX Fighter Programme with the maiden flight of its first F-35A Lightning II on December 8, 2025. The new aircraft, carrying the serial number JF-501, took to the...
Newly leaked evaluation data has revealed that Lockheed Martin’s F-35A Lightning II overwhelmingly outperformed Saab’s Gripen-E in Canada’s 2021 fighter jet competition—scoring nearly three times higher than the Swedish aircraft. The revelation has reignited a heated debate within Ottawa over...
The U.S. Air Force reached a decisive moment in its decades-long modernization push this month with the delivery of its 500th F-35A Lightning II, a stealth fighter that has become the backbone of America’s fifth-generation combat fleet. The milestone aircraft...
Turkey is making a renewed push to rejoin the F-35 Lightning II fifth-generation stealth fighter jet program—a program it was expelled from in 2019 following its controversial acquisition of the Russian S-400 missile defense system. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...
The global fifth-generation fighter jet market, Russia has made an unprecedented offer to India: the export of the Su-57E stealth fighter with full source code access. This proposal, described by regional defense analysts as a strategic shockwave, grants India a...
In a move that secures the Czech Republic’s air defense capabilities through the next decade, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) has agreed to a new offer from Sweden to extend the lease of 12 JAS-39 Gripen C/D fighter jets until...
A recently surfaced video appears to show an unusually close and potentially hazardous interaction between a U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II and a Russian Su-35 Flanker-E fighter jet, raising fresh concerns over the growing frequency and intensity of aerial...