In 1943 the South Pacific was a deadly arena where American pilots battled experienced Japanese fighters across vast ...

On March 11, 1943, Major Richard Bong, flying an olive drab P-38 Lightning over North New Guinea, found himself alone against ...

Crunching the numbers of two defense aerospace juggernauts.

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Lockheed Martin's got the world's most popular fighter jet -- and a stock price that's starting to look attractive.

In October 2025, a high-stakes geopolitical standoff revealed a significant vulnerability in Western industrial security. Analysis of the late 2025 tariff negotiations between Washington and Beijing ...

The F-35 will also serve as a test bed for technologies that will become commonplace in the next generation of jets. Flying ...

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, with its many variants, is likely the best-known fifth-generation fighter plane flying today — at least when it comes to Western nations. As of 2026, 1,000 F-35s ...

Local Air Force servicemembers have been training alongside Dutch pilots on F-35A Lightning IIs. According to Hill Air Force ...

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it struck a US F-35 fighter jet ...