The United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers, namely HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, are designed to carry up to 36 F-35B Lightning II fighter jets. This capacity enhances ...
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How Exporting F-35 Fighter Jets Strengthens the United States

By selling F-35s to allied nations, America provides them with one of the world’s most effective fighter jets—and an ironclad economic connection to the US defense industry.
Belgium is one of the smallest countries in Europe—with dimensions that are simply too short to accommodate the training needs of F-35 pilots.
The UK only has 37 out of a planned 138 F-35 jets in service - almost four decades since the programme, led by the US, was ...
The U.S. military has built up an unusually large force in the Caribbean Sea and the waters off the coast of Venezuela since ...