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What makes the Marine Corps F-35B unlike any other fighter

The F-35B Lightning II is the only stealth fighter capable of short takeoff and vertical landing. Designed specifically for the U.S. Marine Corps, it combines advanced sensors, stealth, and hovering ...
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F-35B fighter jets land on USS Tripoli aircraft carrier

This is the dramatic moment F-35B fighter jets performed a vertical landing on the USS Tripoli aircraft carrier. US Marines ...
The Aviationist

UK MoD Confirms F-35B Rolling Landings Still in Future Plans

Following reports about the cancellation of a landing aid for the SRVL technique on HMS Queen Elizabeth, a Govt minister has clarified that, though timelines have shifted, rolling landings are still ...
The Aviationist

Royal Navy and JMSDF to Cooperate on F-35B Lightning II Operations

The HMS Prince of Wales Carrier Strike Group will link up with the Japanese task group of the JS Kaga to practice combined F-35B operations. The UK’s Royal Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense ...
WTOP News

Japan deploys its first F-35B fighter jets to bolster defenses in the south

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s first three F-35B stealth fighter jets arrived Thursday at an air base in the south of the country, its latest move to fortify defenses as tensions in the region grow. The new ...
Aviation Week

Second Stovl F-35 Joins Flight Testing

Lockheed Martin flew the second short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing (Stovl) F-35B Joint Strike Fighter for the first time on Feb. 25. Aircraft BF-2 will be used from conventional up-and-away flight ...
UPI

Japan deploys first F-35B stealth fighter jet

Aug. 7 (UPI) --The Japanese Air Self Defense Force on Thursday deployed its first three F-35B stealth fighters in southwestern Japan. The three stealth fighters were piloted by U.S. personnel as they ...
Flightglobal

First F-35Bs delivered to Japan

Japan has taken delivery of its first Lockheed Martin F-35B stealth fighters. An initial batch of three jets were ferried by US pilots to Nyutabaru air base in Japan’s southern Miyazaki region on 7 ...
AOL

British F-35 stealth jet makes emergency landing in Japan after mid-air malfunction

A British F-35B Lightning stealth fighter jet was forced to make an emergency landing in Japan on Sunday after developing a technical fault. The £88m aircraft, one of the world’s most advanced combat ...
The National Interest

Déjà Vu: Another British F-35 Just Made an Emergency Landing in Japan

The incident in Japan follows a similar episode in June, when a British F-35 Lightning II made an emergency landing in India—and was stranded there for several weeks. Only weeks after a Royal Navy ...
The National Interest

Why Does America’s F-35 Fighter Look So Much Like an Old Soviet Prototype?

It is unlikely that, as many Russian sources brag, the F-35B was a direct rip-off of the Yak-141. However, there are many staggering similarities between the two planes. Most military and aviation ...