US and British F-35B fighter jets landed on the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga during a joint training Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, Kyodo news agency reported.
The British military posted photos of the F-35B landing on the Kaga on social media.
August 4-12, the United States, Britain, Japan and other countries at sea in the western Pacific waters to carry out joint training. US and British F-35B fighter jets landed on the Japanese carrier-to-be Kaga during joint training, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force said Wednesday. Japanese media said that this is the first British fighter aircraft landed on a Japanese aircraft carrier, the U. S. F-35B fighter aircraft had been in the“Kaga” and its equivalent vessels, “Cloud” on the landing. The British military had earlier released photographs of the aircraft landing with the caption“There is a first time for everything”.
The British F-35B fighter jet landed on the Kaga from the Prince of Wales British aircraft carrier, which docked at the US United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka in Japan on Sunday. Notably, on August 10, an unreported F-35B Prince of Wales made an emergency landing in the Kagoshima Airport due to equipment failure. As of Thursday, the aircraft was still stuck in the Kagoshima Airport.
According to reports, the Kaga’s “Carrier modification” will be completed before the 2028. On August 7, three F-35B fighter jets arrived in the Miyazaki Prefecture Nyutabaru Air Base from Guam, the Japan Self-Defense Forces’s first completed deployment, Kyodo said. Japan will refer to the US and UK experience, to promote carrier-based fighter aircraft in the“Kaga” and other quasi-carrier deployment.
In late 2018, the Japanese government revised the defense outline and other documents, decided to helicopter destroyers“Izumo” and“Kaga” to carry out“Aircraft carrier” modification. Modified to carry about 20 F-35B VTOL stealth fighters, becoming a real aircraft carrier, this is Japan in World War II defeat in 1945 after the surrender of the first carrier-based fighters. On August 8, military expert Zhang Junshe told the global times that the first batch of F-35B fighter Japan Self-Defense Forces had been deployed, “The ‘cloud’-class ‘carrier’ transformation is one of the important actions of Japan to break through the restrictions of the ‘Peace Constitution’ and seek to realize the so-called ‘military normalization’ . The development and procurement of offensive weapons by Japan will worsen the regional security situation and undermine regional peace and stability. It is a blatant provocation to the international order and deserves the international community’s utmost attention.”