US Fighter Jets Capable Of Carrying Nuclear Weapons To Be Deployed In UK

US Fighter Jets Capable Of Carrying Nuclear Weapons To Be Deployed In UK

Handout photo dated August 22, 2016 shows 33rd Fighter Wing F-35As taxi down the flightline at Volk Field, Wis., USA, during Northern Lightning. The UK media reports that two F-35A squadrons have already been deployed and will soon arrive at the US-leased Royal Air Force Base Lakenheath in England. These are low-visibility aircraft designed to deliver tactical nuclear strikes; they are also capable of conducting air-to-air combat tasks and gathering intelligence. Military sources stress that deploying 54 F-35 fighter jets, which will replace the F-15s currently at the air base, is a "significant step" because the F-15s are also capable of carrying nuclear weapons but are less advanced. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Stormy Archer via ABACAPRESS.COM

US Fighter Jets Capable Of Carrying Nuclear Weapons To Be Deployed In UK

US Fighter Jets Capable Of Carrying Nuclear Weapons To Be Deployed In UK

Handout photo dated June 30, 2016 shows a U.S. Air Force Airman with the F-35 Heritage Flight team marshalls an F-35A Lightning II to its parking spot on the flightline at RAF Fairford, UK. The UK media reports that two F-35A squadrons have already been deployed and will soon arrive at the US-leased Royal Air Force Base Lakenheath in England. These are low-visibility aircraft designed to deliver tactical nuclear strikes; they are also capable of conducting air-to-air combat tasks and gathering intelligence. Military sources stress that deploying 54 F-35 fighter jets, which will replace the F-15s currently at the air base, is a "significant step" because the F-15s are also capable of carrying nuclear weapons but are less advanced. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jarad A. Denton via ABACAPRESS.COM

US Air Force To Send Dozens Of F-22 Fighter Jets To The Pacific

US Air Force To Send Dozens Of F-22 Fighter Jets To The Pacific

Handout file photo dated July 9, 2018 of eight U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, sit on the flightline, , at Yokota Air Base, Japan. The United States Air Force is sending more than two dozen F-22 stealth fighters to an exercise in the western Pacific this month, an unusually large deployment of the powerful jets that analysts say sends a strong message to a possible adversary in China.Pacific Air Forces in Hawaii this week said approximately 25 F-22s Raptors from the Hawaii Air National Guard and from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, will deploy this month to Guam and Tinian islands for Operation Pacific Iron 2021. U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe via ABACAPRESS.COM