“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 ...

Lockheed Martin, a Maryland-based defense giant, has highlighted that its F-35 Joint Strike Fighters don't have any discreet ‘kill switch’ that the U.S. government could use to disable fighter jets ...

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 ...

A pilot reacts next to a Norwegian F-35 fighter parked in a hangar at Keflavik Air Base in Iceland on Feb. 1, 2024. (Eyor Arnason/NTB/AFP via Getty Images) MILAN — Norway became the first F-35 partner ...