The US Navy's variant of the F-35 Lightning II has completed its first successful landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier. The test was conducted yesterday, as an F-35C snagged one of the four ...

An advanced United States fighter jet has completed trials with a Japanese helicopter carrier undergoing conversion ...

The F-35 will replace ... also operate the B-variant. The F-35B has a Lift Fan just behind the cockpit and an engine that can swivel 90 degrees when in short takeoff/vertical landing mode.

Japan’s F-35 program is for 105 F-35As and 42 F-35Bs ... base for U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aircraft to conduct field carrier landing practice there instead of the current location of Iwo ...

The F-35C Lightning II is the U.S. Navy’s first low-observable carrier-based aviation platform. The F-35 is being purchased ... larger wings and more robust landing gear than the other variants ...

The Tripoli played a central role in the F-35B "lightning carrier ... The first Yulan-class landing helicopter assault ship has a flight deck as large as three football fields, about as long as the US ...

The Tripoli played a central role in the F-35B 'lightning carrier' concept ... gives it the unique capability of vertical takeoff and landing. Developed by Rolls-Royce, the lift fan delivers ...