Dutch F-35A on NATO Air Policing mission shot down Russian pilotless armed aircraft, sports Geran-2 drone kill mark on its fuselage

A, tail number F-027, achieved the first combat kill by a NATO aircraft against Russian drones over Polish airspace on ...

Photos show an F-35 flaunting a fresh kill marking after the stealth fighter made NATO history by downing Russian drones

Dutch military photos showed an F-35 stealth fighter sporting a fresh drone-shaped kill mark after the advanced jet was used to shoot down Russian drones that violated alliance airspace.
New York Post

F-35 pilot held nearly hour-long conference call mid-air to fix fighter jet before it crashed

A F-35 pilot spent 50 minutes on a conference call mid-air with engineers to solve a problem with a $200 million jet before it plummeted onto the runway at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska, forcing ...
Hackaday

A Low F Number Lens, From Scratch

The F-number of a photographic lens is a measure of its light-gathering ability, and is expressed as its aperture diameter divided by its focal length. Lenses with low F-numbers are prized by ...
CNN

F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before fighter jet crashed in Alaska

A US Air Force F-35 pilot spent 50 minutes on an airborne conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers trying to solve a problem with his fighter jet before he ejected and the plane plunged to the ...
Defense One

USAF slashes F-35 buy, boosts next-gen fighter in unconventional 2026 budget proposal

The Pentagon is proposing to halve its planned F-35 buy and boost funding for the sixth-gen F-47 fighter jet—but many of its 2026 budget-proposal details hinge on the reconciliation legislation still ...
Hackaday

F number

The Raspberry Pi has provided experimenters with many channels of enquiry, and for me perhaps the furthest into uncharted waters it has led me has come through its camera interface. At a superficial ...