The Pentagon announced Thursday that as part of its response to Russian aggression, it would dispatch two squadrons of next-generation fighter jets to the United Kingdom to replace military personnel currently being withdrawn. The only problem is that these jets are far from battle-ready.
The Defense Department said it plans to base two squadrons of Lockheed Martin’s long-delayed F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter in the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force Lakenheath by 2020, even as it wraps up operations at the RAF’s Mildenhall air base, a longtime home for U.S. forces.
That will add up to a net reduction of about …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
