Japan plans to field a second F-35B squadron by the end of the decade, according to a Japan Ministry of Defense (MOD) ...

A third Marine Corps squadron of F-35B Lightning II fighters arrived at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, marking the latest ...

The USS Tripoli will replace the USS America as the US's forward-deployed big deck amphibious ship in the Indo-Pacific and it ...

An internal Pentagon report has uncovered a number of issues with at-sea testing of the US Marine Corps' variant of the F-35B Lightning II ... over the ten days aboard the Wasp, the six embarked ...

F-35B Lightning II fighter aircraft from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 242 conducted flight operations Monday aboard amphibious assault ship USS America sailing in the Philippine Sea. America ...

the weapon was now attached externally to a F-35B for something that is described as an initial flight test performed by the people from the F-35 Pax River Integrated Test Force (ITF). We're not ...

The USS Wasp (CV-7)entered service in 1940. It was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier and was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean ...

USS Wasp (CV-7) was authorized by Congress in March 1934, at the height of the Great Depression, laid down in April 1936, ...

With a longer hangar deck, it can carry bigger aircraft like the F-35B. Each ship costs $3.4 billion and has been commissioned since 2013. More from Military & Defense The USS America is the first ...

The January 13 exercise included a US F-35B carrying amphibious assault ship ... The USSAmerica will be replacing the USS Wasp as the U.S. Navy’s largest forward-deployed amphibious assault ...

It replaces USS America as the Navy's amphibious assault ship based in Japan. The Tripoli played a central role in the F-35B 'lightning ... to its predecessor, the Wasp-class amphibious warships.

It replaces the USS America as the Navy's amphibious assault ship based in Japan. The Tripoli played a central role in the F-35B "lightning carrier" concept ... similar in size to its predecessor, the ...