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USMC F-35Bs to operate off JS Izumo by November 2021

by Kosuke Takahashi

The US Marine Corps (USMC) plans to operate its Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II multirole fighter aircraft from one of Japan's two Izumo-class helicopter carriers by November 2021, USMC Commandant General David Berger said on 1 September.

“We're not going to go on deployment but we're actually going to fly US Marine Corps' F-35s off a Japanese ship,” the four-star general said during a Maritime Security Dialogue hosted by the US Naval Institute and Center for Strategic and International Studies on 1 September.

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