UK Will Send Carrier-Based F-35s To Counter Islamic State Insurgency

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UK F-35s onboard HMS Queen Elizabeth.
Credit: LPhot Daniel Shepherd / © UK Ministry of Defence CROWN COPYRIGHT, 2019
LONDON—UK F-35s will see action again in the skies over Iraq and Syria, this time operating from the carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth. F-35s will fly missions in support of the U.S.-led coalition against the so-called Islamic State group—often referred to as Daesh—when the ship deploys to the...

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