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The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of stealth multirole fighters that first entered service with the United States in 2015. The aircraft has been ordered by program partner nations, including the United Kingdom, Italy, Norway, and Australia, and also through the Department of Defense's Foreign Military Sales program, including Japan, South Korea, and Israel.
The new designation was created to reflect the MH-60Rs multi-mission capabilities [32] which combined the area search capabilities of the SH-60B flown by the Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light (HSL) squadrons with the dipping sonar of the SH-60F flown by the carrier based Helicopter Anti-Submarine (HS) squadrons. The first operational ...
Joint Strike Fighter Wing exercises command over 4 operational squadrons and 1 FRS squadron . [3] The squadrons in the following list are organized chronologically from top to bottom based on when they transitioned to the F-35C Lightning II. The year they became a F-35C squadron is listed in parentheses. [2] [6] VFA-125 "Rough Raiders" (2017)
Marine Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron One (VMX-1) is a United States Marine Corps operational test squadron consisting of multiple aircraft types. The squadron is based at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona. VMX-22 stood up in August 2003 and was redesignated VMX-1 in May 2016.
Strike Fighter Squadron 147 (VFA-147), also known as the "Argonauts," is a United States Navy strike fighter squadron based at MCAS Iwaukuni, Japan. [1] VFA-147 was established on 1 February 1967 and flies the F-35C Lightning II, as the first non-training F-35C squadron in the U.S. Navy and the first forward-deployed F-35C squadron as a member of CVW-5.
In mid-November, US Marine Corps pilots donned MOPP gear to train for war fighting under the strain of chemical, biological, or radiological hazards.
The F-35 was the product of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, which was the merger of various combat aircraft programs from the 1980s and 1990s. One progenitor program was the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Advanced Short Take-Off/Vertical Landing (ASTOVL) which ran from 1983 to 1994; ASTOVL aimed to develop a Harrier jump jet replacement for the U.S. Marine Corps ...
531st Fighter Squadron: Bien Hoa Air Base: F-100: Inactivated on 31 July 1970 532d Fighter-Day Squadron: Seymour Johnson AFB: F-100: Inactivated on 8 December 1957 533d Fighter-Day Squadron: Seymour Johnson AFB: F-100: Inactivated on 8 December 1957 534th Fighter-Day Squadron: Seymour Johnson AFB: F-100: Inactivated on 8 December 1957 535th ...