Additionally, the Marines plan to increase the number of F-35s from 10 to 12 per squadron. This will likely happen sometime ...

What You Need to Know: The U.S. Navy’s F-35C Lightning II stealth fighter recently saw its first combat action in a series of airstrikes against Houthi rebel weapons storage sites in Yemen.

The $100m (£74m) F-35C plane came down in the South China Sea after what the Navy describes as a "mishap" during landing on the USS Carl Vinson. The jet is the Navy's newest, and crammed with ...

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The F-35C Lightning II is the U.S. Navy’s first low-observable carrier-based aviation platform. The F-35 is being purchased to replace the F/A-18C/D Hornet as the carrier strike group’s ...

The Basic Details Just like with the F-35B, it was the good ol’ Teufelhunden (“devil dogs”), i.e., the U.S. Marines, who were the first to use the F-35C in combat.The details come to us ...

Lockheed Martin announced the recent delivery of the 100th F-35C Lightning II fifth-generation fighter jet, marking a new milestone for the program after the delivery of the 1000th F-35 earlier ...

Meanwhile, the F-35C is meant to deter foreign adversaries. The advanced capabilities it offers to the U.S. Navy signal to adversaries that America’s naval service is not to be tested.

A major operation was launched to recover the $100m (£74m) F-35C jet - the newest, most advanced in the US force. The aircraft ended up in at the bottom of the South China Sea following a landing ...

An American aircraft carrier continued to patrol the South China Sea, and a Chinese "flattop" concluded a sea trial.

Photos published by the U.S. Navy showed the USS Carl Vinson is deployed with six additional F-35C stealth fighter jets.

A's initial operational capability in August 2016 (the year after the Marines declared initial operational capability of the ...