{"id":149305,"date":"2024-11-12T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/4-operators-stovl-f-35b-variant\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T16:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T06:00:13","slug":"these-are-the-4-operators-of-the-stovl-f-35b-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=149305","title":{"rendered":"These Are The 4 Operators Of The STOVL F-35B Variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2028197\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-are-the-f-35a-f-35b-and-f-35c-lightning-variants-used-by-us-forces\/\" >F-35 Lightning II fighter jet comes in three variants: the F-35A, F-35B, and F-35C<\/a><\/span>. The             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-35\/\"  >F-35B<\/a><\/span> is the short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) variant designed for smaller aircraft carriers and the Marines&#8217; aircraft carrier-like amphibious assault ships. So far, four customers are purchasing the F-35B (most air forces are purchasing the land-based F-35A while it is mostly the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58652\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>US Navy<\/span><\/span> purchasing the F-35C). These are the four operators (or future operators) of the F-35B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four countries operate (or will soon operate) the F-35B mostly for navies (although also for the RAF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,748,345,9771,240,12043,423,5680],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-35","category-italy","category-japan","category-north-america","category-royal-navy","category-united-states","category-us-marines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149306,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149305\/revisions\/149306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}