The UK has taken delivery of its first of three F-35B .., while defence secretary Philip Hammond has announced plans to order a fourth example next year.
..BK-1 will soon be transferred to Eglin AFB in Florida, where it will join .. (IOT&E) of the F-35.
..Hammond also revealed that the Ministry of Defence currently favours the Royal Air Force’s Marham base in Norfolk to become the main operating site for its F-35B Lightning IIs,... Land-based trials of the type are due to commence in the UK in 2018, following ..IOT&E phase of the programme.
.. flown by RAF and Royal Navy ..F-35Bs will .. be operated from .. the ...Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers ...around 2020.