Slideshow:USS WASP F-35B pilots in action.
Significant innovation, shaping distributed operational capabilities, and greater coalition effectiveness are all part of the way ahead for the Australian forces. It is about building a more credible deterrent force, one whose effectiveness can not be in doubt in the eyes of the adversaries of the democracies.
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.
In the second piece in our Osprey series, we look at the maturation of the Osprey from a production standpoint. The Boeing Osprey facility near Philadelphia highlights the changes in the manufacturing process accompanying the maturation of the aircraft.
Slideshow: USS WASP F-35B landing and preparing to taxi to the hangar.
Major Greenberg, a PAO for the USMC aboard the USS Wasp, provides an update on the process and the progress.