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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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Military investigators are facing questions about why an F-35 stealth fighter jet went missing for more than 24 hours. ... the Marine Corps' first F-35 squadron in South Carolina from 2012 to 2014 ...
The 34th Fighter Squadron is part of the United States Air Force's 388th Fighter Wing at Hill Air Force Base, Utah.On 2 August 2016, the Air Force announced that the 34th had become the first squadron to achieve initial operating capability with the F-35A, the Air Force′s variant of the F-35 Lightning II.
The 58th Fighter Squadron operated the F-15 Eagle to support the various combatant commanders by providing air superiority on call until September 2009 [3] and then became DoD's first F-35 Lightning II training squadron on 1 Oct. 2009. [6] with seven officers and one enlisted airman. Its first F-35A is expected to arrive in the fall of 2010. [7]
The squadron fought in the Gulf War, equipped with the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, and was inactivated in 1992 after briefly returning to its original designation. The 356th is the first fighter squadron in Pacific Air Forces to fly the F-35 Lightning II.