Slideshow:USS WASP F-35B pilots in action.
Slideshow: USS WASP F-35B landing and preparing to taxi to the hangar.
The coming of the UK carrier is nothing less than providing for strategic options simply missing from current UK defense forces.
The UK is engaged aboard the Wasp as a run up to F-35B integration aboard the HMS Queen Elizabeth.
Not only is the F-35 a breakthrough capability so is the design of in many ways a radically new large deck carrier.
With the larger amphibious ships able to operate F-35s, Ospreys and CH-53Ks, the ability of the team to insert Marines at greater distance and safety is being worked.
Slideshow:USS WASP F-35B Landing
Major Greenberg, a PAO for the USMC aboard the USS Wasp, provides an update on the process and the progress.