Key Points and Summary - The "F-35D" is not an official aircraft but a catch-all name for various proposed upgrades. -Past concepts included a canceled short-takeoff variant and another with a more ...

The 2012 defense budget that President Obama proposed on Monday is a shot in the arm for the Air Force and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base because it commits the nation to building a new bomber to ...

Pratt & Whitney is under contract to deliver 141 F135 engines for the 18th lot of F-35s. (Rick Goodfriend/Air Force) The U.S. Navy on Friday awarded Pratt & Whitney a contract modification worth up to ...

WASHINGTON - A House panel on Wednesday moved toward reviving the alternate engine for the next-generation F-35 fighter plane over objections of President Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who ...