“There is no kill switch.” The Joint Program Office’s direct shoot-down of a long-standing rumor surrounding the F-35 Lightning II was intended to put the rumor to rest. But in the universe of ...

With heightened tensions between Europe and the United States over NATO and Ukraine, the myth of an F-35 “kill switch”, which would supposedly allow the Pentagon to disable foreign-operated F-35s, is ...

After several weeks of wild speculation, the Pentagon is formally denying it has the ability to remotely disable Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets. Dubbed the “kill switch”, the concept seemingly ...

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) speaks during the 214th plenary session of the 20th legislative period in the German Parliament (Bundestag). Lawmakers in ...

LONDON—A Lockheed Martin F-35 has off-boarded data to a non-U.S. command-and-control system for the first time through joint testing by the company’s Skunk Works and the UK Royal Air Force’s (RAF) ...