The Royal Navy re-entered the strike carrier business as the first two F-35B Lightning II stealth fighters touched down on the flight deck of HMS Queen Elizabeth on September 25. Under the control of ...

Italian F-35B Lightning IIs have landed on HMS Prince of Wales as it heads through the Mediterranean Sea on the mammoth CSG 25 deployment. Aircraft carriers HMS Prince of Wales and ITS Cavour have ...

UK Carrier Strike Group launching F-35B missions in support of Operation Shader from the eastern Mediterranean Sea. On her maiden operational deployment, HMS Queen Elizabeth, with F-35B jets belonging ...

UK-owned F-35B Lightning aircraft have joined the Royal Navy (RN) aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth for the first time to start a period of Operational Testing (OT-1) off the eastern seaboard of ...

What You Need to Know: The Royal Navy’s renowned 809 Naval Air Squadron, known as the “Immortals,” has returned to sea after a 15-year hiatus, operating F-35B Lightning II stealth fighters from HMS ...

It’s the first time British jets land on a British aircraft carrier since the retirement of the Harrier GR9 in 2010 The Operational Test 1, as dubbed on a patch circulating among the carrier’s crew, ...

Capt Christopher Streicher with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 211 completes pre-flight checks in an F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter aboard Her Majesty’s Ship (HMS) Queen Elizabeth at ...

F-35B Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 211, Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 21 The ‘Wake Island Avengers’ conducts carrier qualifications in an F-35B Joint Strike Fighter Lightning II aboard Her ...

The UK has performed the first landing of a Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning combat aircraft aboard the Royal Navy’s (RN’s) second aircraft carrier, HMS Prince of Wales. Achieved on 9 June, the ...

Ten of the Marine Corps’ newest aircraft – the F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters – are onboard the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth and will participate in a multi-month deployment with ...

The HMS Prince of Wales’ deployment could help restore deterrence to the Indo-Pacific. The United Kingdom’s HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier is set to embark on a Western Pacific deployment later ...