F-35As departing this weekend for deployment in Europe

The U.S. Air Force has disclosed that it will send a small number of F-35As on a training deployment in Europe.

First Hill F-35
By Todd Cromar [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

The jets and airmen will be departing this weekend and the service said they are “scheduled to conduct training with other U.S. and NATO aircraft based in Europe for several weeks.”