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A US F-35 stealth fighter just landed on a destroyer Japan turned into an aircraft carrier for the first time off the California coast
Photos show a US F-35B operating on Japan's newly converted destroyer-turned-aircraft carrier off t…
Chris Panella
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US forces are going to help Japan get its destroyer-turned-aircraft carrier ready to fly F-35 stealth fighters
The operational tests for F-35B stealth fighters comes after Japan recently finished modification w…
Chris Panella
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Japan showed off the destroyer it's turning into an aircraft carrier for F-35 stealth fighters
Japan hasn't flown fighter jets from carriers since World War II, but it's building out its capabil…
Chris Panella
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Japan's deal to buy F-35 Lightning jets from US 'may fuel arms race with China in region'
Japan's deal to buy F-35 Lightning jets from US 'may fuel arms race with China in region'
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Japan Airlines is looking at hydrogen-electric-powered aircraft as a solution to the aviation industry's carbon problem
Japan Airlines' new partners have all completed successful hydrogen-electric flights this year. But…
Taylor Rains
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The US's experimental 'lightning carriers' are 'much more capable' than China's current carriers, US admiral says
An amphibious assault ship loaded with more than a dozen F-35Bs "just is a very versatile instrumen…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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How fighter pilots train to fly the Marine Corps' F-35B
The Marine Corps Air Station in Beaufort, South Carolina, is the sole location where fighter jet pi…
Clayton Dyer,Jake Gabbard
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The not-quite-aircraft-carriers that the US Navy and other militaries use to carry jets, tanks, and troops into battle
Amphibious assault ships and helicopter carriers allow smaller navies to flex muscles that usually …
Benjamin Brimelow
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US officials deny reports that missing Japanese F-35 is found
Lockheed Martin An F-35A performs a test flight on March 28, 2013.
David Choi
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Japan just joined an elite club with its latest fighter jet
According to Takahiro Yoshida, an official within the Japanese Defense Ministry, the X-2, "has high…
Alex Lockie
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A short history of US fighter aircraft — from biplanes to stealth jets
The surest way to secure the skies over a battlefield is with fighter aircraft, and nobody knows th…
Benjamin Brimelow
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The US Marine Corps has sent its F-35B jet to Japan for first overseas deployment
About three years later, on July 31, 2015, IOC (Initial Operational Capability) was declared and in…
Jeremy Bender
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The F-35 Lightning fighter can't stand up to real lightning, so Marines ordered specialty rods to keep them from going up in flames
Earlier this month, Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan requested 14 F-35 portable lighting rod…
Ryan Pickrell
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Here's what Japan says happened to the F-35 that mysteriously disappeared in the Pacific
The ministry said in a statement that the fifth-generation fighter, following a rapid descent from …
Ryan Pickrell
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The US and Japan are scrambling to find a missing F-35 before someone else does
The F-35A was being flown by an experienced pilot with more than 3,200 flight hours, including 60 h…
Ryan Pickrell
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US commanders say 5th-gen fighters will be 'critical' in a war. Here's how F-35s and F-22s stack up to Russia's and China's best jets.
"You're either fifth-generation or you're an expensive target," one expert told Insider.
Benjamin Brimelow
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The US and Japan still can't find a missing F-35, and its 'secrets' may be in danger
The plane is suspected to have crashed within Japan's exclusive economic zone, which would legally …
Ryan Pickrell
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Japan is planning to launch fighters from aircraft carriers for the first time since World War II
Japan's pacifist constitution prohibits the possession of "attack aircraft carriers," but the defen…
Ryan Pickrell
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F-35s in Japan are still losing dogfights to F-15s sometimes - here's why
But the pilots at Kadena dogfighting against F-15s may be a cut above, according to Berke, who said…
Alex Lockie
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Chief Of Dysfunctional F-35 Program Calls Out The Pentagon's Defense Contractors
"What I see Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney doing today is behaving as if they are getting …