F-35

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Mission: Save the US-Turkey alliance

Jamie McIntyre · March 22, 2019 12:00 am

F35

National Security

Pentagon warns Turkey: no F-35s if you buy Russian anti-aircraft missiles

Jamie McIntyre · March 8, 2019 7:18 pm

What $400 billion looks like.

The Pentagon’s prize fighter is ready for its close-up

Jamie McIntyre · December 28, 2018 5:01 am

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, is greeted by Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of their talks at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse Tuesday, March 21, 2017 in Beijing, China.

Beltway Confidential

Israel is being a bad ally to the US over China

Tom Rogan · December 17, 2018 6:24 pm

Vice President Mike Pence, right, listens to Alan Norman, left, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Test Pilot, as he looks at the cockpit of a F-35 fighter jet, while touring the "Made in America" product showcase, featuring items created in each of the U.S. 50 states, at the White House in Washington, Monday, July 23, 2018. With Pence are Energy Secretary Rick Perry, second from the left, and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, second from the right.

National Security

Mattis goal to make 80 percent of military planes combat-ready tough to achieve, GAO tells Congress

Jamie McIntyre · December 12, 2018 4:50 pm

An airplane hanger at Tyndall Air Force Base is damaged from hurricane Michael in Panama City, Fla., Thursday.

Beltway Confidential

A vulnerable Air Force base is the wrong place for expensive F-35s

Erin Dunne · December 10, 2018 9:40 pm

Too big to sail? US aircraft carriers could go the way of the dinosaur

Jamie McIntyre · December 4, 2018 5:00 am

Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX) is surrounded by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington.

National Security

F-35 program gets champion in top GOP slot on House Appropriations panel

Travis J. Tritten · November 30, 2018 3:56 pm

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis attends a joint press conference.

Stalled F-35 fighter jet delivery to Turkey could soon refire

Travis J. Tritten · November 16, 2018 7:14 pm

The administration requested a total of 63 F-35s this year. The House version already added the 11.

The F-35, the great white whale of defense waste

Ross Marchand · November 14, 2018 5:00 am

A Lockheed Martin Corp. F-35A jet flies during a training mission in Hill Air Force Base, Utah, U.S., on Friday, Oct. 21, 2016.

National Security

Most F-35 jets return to flight following fuel tube issue

Travis J. Tritten · October 15, 2018 2:30 pm

Andrew Craig Brunson, an evangelical pastor from Black Mountain, N.C., appears in Izmir, Turkey.

Pastor Brunson’s release could be good news for the F-35 program

Travis J. Tritten · October 12, 2018 6:41 pm