MELBOURNE, Australia– Japan will certainly send its fifth-generation F-35 stealth boxers overseas for the very first time later on this month to participate in workouts in north Australia.
The Japan Air Self-Defense Force, or JASDF, claimed in a launch Monday that 4 Lockheed-Martin F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters from the third Air Wing at Misawa will certainly embark on a two-week deployment.
According to the launch, the deployment will certainly see the jets participate in workouts flying through Andersen Air Force Base on the united state region of Guam to Darwin and also Tindal in Australia’s Northern Territory.
A JASDF Boeing KC-767 vessel, a Lockheed-Martin C-130 Hercules and also 2 Kawasaki C-2 airlifters will certainly sustain the F-35s for the workouts startingAug 21 and also endingSept 2.
This will certainly note the very first time Japan has actually sent its F-35s overseas for training and also adheres to the deployment of 5 Mitsubishi F-2 …