{"id":377245,"date":"2026-02-27T19:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-us-navy-raving-stealth-fighters-achievement\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:00:16","slug":"amphibious-why-the-us-navy-is-raving-about-this-stealth-fighters-latest-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=377245","title":{"rendered":"Amphibious: Why The US Navy Is Raving About This Stealth Fighter\u2019s Latest Achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USS Kearsarge Wasp-class amphibious assault ship has now achieved its first flight with the fifth-generation <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 Lightning II<\/a><\/span> fighter jet. It is emerging from two years of scheduled retrofits and is about to take its place as a refreshed, modernized amphibious assault ship equipped with the world&#8217;s most powerful fighter jet. The F-35B is the only STOVL fighter jet currently in production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of the tunnel is now in sight for the amphibious assault ships to transition to F-35B operations as the final AV-8B Harriers retire.<\/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":[396,748,412,423,5680,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-35","category-military","category-united-states","category-us-marines","category-us-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377245","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=377245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377246,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377245\/revisions\/377246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}