The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force’s (JMSDF) Izumo-class helicopter carrier, JS Kaga, will soon be dispatched to the United States for testing of the F-35B Lightning II aircraft, which the carrier is geared to host in the future. The JMSDF announced in a press release recently that the operational tests of the special modification of the … Continue reading Japan’s ‘Heavily Modified’ Aircraft Carrier Is Headed To U.S. To Test F-35 STOVL Operations Amid Boiling Indo-Pacific Tensions