US air power: As military tensions between Pyongyang and Washington escalate, America’s newest fighter-bomber, the F-35, is coming to Asia in increasing numbers. This, Todd Crowell writes, should worry Kim Jong-un. The F-35 “Lightning” is the most advanced fighter in the US inventory. The first so-called “Fifth Generation” stealth fighter in the region comes in three models: the F-35A for the air force; the F-35B, which is capable of vertical takeoff and landing, for the marines; and the F-35C naval version. The F-35 can reach speeds of up to Mach 1.6, or nearly twice the speed of sound, and its stealth design and coating of radar absorbents make it practically invisible. According to Aviation Week, the three air forces facing North Korea will have about 100 of the fighters by 2020, deployed in a kind of arc from South Korea’s Kunsan air base to Japan’s Misawa air base in northern Honshu. READ THE STORY HERE
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