F-35B
Military Watch Magazine – May 28, 2026
The Italian Air Force has deployed F-35B fifth generation fighter aircraft to conduct highway operations in Finland for the first time, operating the aircraft from the Finnish Air Force’s dispersed road base network to simulate dispersal in a high intensity conflict situation. The fighters operated from the Jokioinen alternate landing site in Kanta-Hame, approximately 200 kilometres from the Russian border. These operations reflected a broader U.S.-led shift in NATO air doctrine toward Agile Combat Employment and distributed operations, which stipulates that rather than concentrating combat aircraft at a limited number of large bases, fighter units instead train for dispersal across improvised locations. The United States Air Force from 2019 began to train to operate its own F-35A fighters under a similar concept in the Middle East, before implementing it during its war with Iran from February to limit vulnerability to missile and drone attacks on its base.
Although the F-35 was designed primarily for aircraft carrier operations and to support U.S. Marine Corps ‘island hopping’ operations in the Pacific, the Italian Air Force remains one of just two services in the world alongside the Singaporean Air Force to have ordered the aircraft primarily for land-based operations. This reflects the fact that austere airfield operations were prioritised when procurement decisions were being made. The F-35B is approximately 50 percent more costly to procure than the F-35A, while having a far shorter range, higher maintenance needs lower weapons capacity, and far inferior flight performance, reflecting a wide range of design compromises made to accommodate its short takeoff and vertical landing capabilities. Its ability to operate from makeshift airfields is nevertheless unmatched among Western fighter aircraft. It is estimated to require only 150-300 metres of runway to take off, where the F-35A requires over 1,000 metres.
Italian Air Force Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Luca Goretti justified the decision to procure a small number of F-35Bs by stressing that there were “many short airfields around the world,” with its austere airfield capabilities ensuring that it could “be relevant everywhere in the world.” “If you consider also what’s happening in Ukraine, airfield dispersion can be maybe one day the only way to protect your high-value assets,” he added. Western fighter aircraft have traditionally not prioritised austere airfield capabilities, contrasting sharply with their Soviet and later Russian counterparts which have consistently been built to operate from makeshift runways. This is increasingly widely recognised to have caused significant vulnerabilities due to the advanced missile and drone strike capabilities of potential adversaries, with the Russian, Iranian and North Korean asymmetric strategies for countering Western Bloc air power focusing heavily on the ability to target airfields.
Significant questions have been raised regarding the performance and cost effectiveness of the F-35B, particularly after the U.S. Marine Corps in early 2025 announced plans to reduce procurements from 353 to just 280 aircraft, with the intention of reallocating funds to more than double its planned fleet of F-35C fighters from 67 to 140. This follows multiple reports that the F-35B had fallen short of requirements for Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO) – the Marines’ own doctrine for dispersed fighter operations – largely due to its excessive maintenance needs. Thus while the attraction of a fighter optimised to operate away from major runways is expected to continue to grow, the F-35B’s significant shortcomings in a number of areas, including its outstandingly high sustainment requirements, may negate this.
“The Italian Air Force has deployed F-35B fifth generation fighter aircraft to conduct highway operations in Finland for the first time…” — meanwhile Italy has no borders and is being invaders by millions of turd worlders.
> Italy Deploys F-35B Stealth ‘Jump Jets’ to Russia’s Borders For Runway-Free Operations
You’ve gotta love planes that don’t need runways. They just float in the air exactly like a brick doesn’t.
> The Italian Air Force plans to deploy its F-35s to Finland, using the country’s road based alternate landing sites. Some of which are roughly 200 kilometres from the border with Russia
Italy, of course, being worried about the penguins in thin-land, are sending their plains there to pro-tect them from the big bad Russians, who like nothing better than freezing their asses off in ig-loo-land. It’s also a lot easier to “lose” plains in far off countries so you can “collect” taxes to “replace” them.
2030.
“Italy” is being overrun by vicious niggers but Big Shlomo won’t let us address that.
So let’s obsess over Russia
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The F-35B is approximately 50 percent more costly to procure than the F-35A, while having a far shorter range, higher maintenance needs lower weapons capacity, and far inferior flight performance, reflecting a wide range of design compromises made to accommodate its short takeoff and vertical landing capabilities.
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More bullshit from the fake populist government of Italy actually controlled by the fake EU government, and also likely by the usual suspects with all of the money. Buying the hugely-expensive US MIC weapons with Russia used to pose as some kind of threat to the EU is simply more of the theatre of the absurd, intended to exploit innocent people.
Any global revolution by the people based on the spread of the truth and the FULL DISCLOSURE OF THE FACTS on every one of our vital interests, would end all the SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION and BULLSHIT. IT would reform and clean out all our systems, such that we could live our lives with each other based on good will and trust and not is a constant state of these orchestrated hatreds and wars.
Not in a long time have we seen someone so adept at whispering out both sides of her mouth at the same time as Baloney Meloni. She can say one thing and do another all in the same photo op.
Italy, eh? Terrifying….if it were 20 A.D. As several above have already pointed out, Italy is overrun with less-than-worthless Orc nigger and dune coon scum in the jew-backed frenzy of degradation and destruction, yet Shlomo and the yid jackals convince the terminally stupid that Russia should be the target?
Any and every politician, financier, and media hack throughout Jewrope and North Americunt who isn’t loudly calling for the immediate slaughter of the invaders should be chased through the streets and butchered.
Once upon the time in post war Germany there were stories of Italian tanks that had one forward gear and 5 reverse gears – to avoid being shot at and to get away quick in a moment of crisis. Thank God that they now dont have that problem as the Murican bought F35 wont even get to its destination with that “many short airfields around the world” with the darn gravity and dodgy shyneese bits sorting out the rest!