{"id":246629,"date":"2025-07-05T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T02:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/f-35-vertical-takeoff-landing\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T12:00:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T02:00:29","slug":"why-the-f-35-has-such-a-vertical-takeoff-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=246629","title":{"rendered":"Why The F-35 Has Such A Vertical Takeoff &amp; Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2035902\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/key-milestones-f-35-lightning-ii-program\/\" >F-35 Lightning II fighter jet was designed as a joint strike fighter<\/a><\/span> to serve the needs of the United States Air Force, Navy, and Marines, as well as many US allies and partners around the world. For the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"1835\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-force\/\"  >Air Force<\/a><\/span>, the F-35A variant has conventional takeoff and landing, while the Navy&#8217;s F-35C variant is designed to operate off the fleet&#8217;s aircraft carriers. However, the Marines required an airplane capable of SVTOL operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The F-35B is the most advanced STOVL fighter jet and is &#8216;the&#8217; 5th-gen fighter of warships smaller than US Navy supercarriers.<\/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":[396,748,628,4942,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-35","category-fighter-jets","category-rolls-royce","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246629","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=246629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246630,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246629\/revisions\/246630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}