USS America to test F-35B this October

The U.S. Marine Corps latest fighter will go for ship-borne testing aboard the Navy’s newest amphibious assault ship, USS America, this October.

USS America (LHA-6) at Guantanamo Bay in July 2014
By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Scott Pittman [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

The ship’s crew will be traveling to a few locations across the United States in the next few months to get hands-on training on how to handle and manage the stealth fighter on board the boat.