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The F-35C has made its first aircraft carrier landing aboard the USS Nimitz. The landing is part of flight testing at sea that will last for about two weeks, and will help pave the way to deploy the aircraft in the naval fleet by 2018,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STVAM85y3i0
The UK variant, F-35B Lightning II, will provide UK Defence with a 5th Generation (low observable, supersonic, enhanced data fusion), multi-role, all weather, day and night aircraft that will have the ability to operate from land bases as well as the Queen Elizabeth Class carriers, the first of which is due to accept Lightning II onto her deck in 2018. This basing flexibility will give UK Defence a truly joint expeditionary Combat Air capability well into the 2030’s.
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Royal Navy F-35B's complete first weapons testing - http://www.royalnavy.mod...203-weapons-flight-test
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Just a shame that the first Queen Elizabeth Squadron is likely to belong to the US Marines..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/the-reporters-30229988
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