The U.S. approval, as expected, clears the path for the Japan Ministry of Defense to become the largest customer for the F-35 outside the U.S. and expand the customer base for the short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing F-35B.

More than a month after the U.S. Army secretary green lighted the use of air assets during a June 1 protest of the death of George Floyd in Washington, lawmakers will finally have access to the Pentagon’s investigation report.

A United Nations report into the use of armed drones has suggested that the U.S.-sanctioned killing of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani in Iraq in January violated international laws.

Deployments by Italian Air Force F-35s to Iceland have provided a template for how the country will use the fifth-generation fighter in the future.

Britain is planning to restart arms sales to Saudi Arabia, a year after judges found that government ministers had been unlawfully signing off on export licenses.

Damaging attacks by SUAS on Saudi oil facilities last September prompted the Pentagon to quickly seek to rationalize a counter-small unmanned aircraft systems (C-SUAS) architecture,.

The U.S. Navy is taking another step in improving the readiness of F/A-18 and EA-18G aircraft by reversing a more than 10-year-long shortfall of generator control units (GCU).

A draft of the House Appropriations Committee’s (HAC) mark of the fiscal 2021 defense funding bill, released July 7, would give the Pentagon $9.3 billion for 91 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, an additional 12 aircraft above President Trump’s budget request.