{"id":34893,"date":"2024-05-05T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/aircraft-carriers-certified-navy-f-35c-fighters\/"},"modified":"2024-05-05T21:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T11:00:12","slug":"what-aircraft-carriers-are-certified-to-operate-the-navys-f-35c-fighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=34893","title":{"rendered":"What Aircraft Carriers Are Certified To Operate The Navy’s F-35C Fighters?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It may come as a surprise, but the Navy purchased a fifth-generation fighter that could not operate off their aircraft carriers<\/a> – at least not without modifications. The modifications are made as the carriers are taken in for refit and so the process will not be complete until all the carriers are eventually circled through their scheduled refits. The F-35s come in three variants<\/a>. The F-35A<\/a> is a land-based Air Force variant. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps four carriers have been modified to operate F-35C leaving seven more to be modified or to be retired without modifications.<\/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":[396,2759,748,570,412,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-carrier","category-f-35","category-guide","category-military","category-us-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t