The F-35 Can Now Send Target Data to Aircraft Carriers

Kris Osborn

Security, Asia

China and Russia should take note.

F-35 officials with the Joint Program Office explain that the F-35 has identified and transmitted targets to ground weapons, such as artillery and rockets, in recent exercises as well. This scenario, one senior official said, specifically happened during ongoing multi-domain battle exercises in the Pacific.

The Pentagon’s F-35 has conducted test attack missions in tandem with other aircraft, surface ships...