Belgium Asserts Control: Full Sovereignty Over F-35A Deployment in Response to Growing Security Threats – EUROP INFO

On Wednesday, 23 April, the Belgian Prime Minister, Bart De Wever, announced that his country was going to buy new F-35 fighter aircraft, produced by Lockheed Martin, reports the JDD. Our neighbours thus consolidate their strategic alignment with the American program, while the United States is still threatening a commercial war. "As we have already purchased 34 F-35, it will have to be F-35 again," justified the head of the government of Belgiu…

At an air force base in Arizona, in the United States, some 50 Belgian soldiers are learning to operate the new F-35 fighter jets that the government purchased in 2018. The first pilots have already been fully retrained as F-35 pilots, a training that takes about six months. "We train our pilots here because the sun shines every day and because we have a lot of space," soldier Loïc Van Himst tells VRT NWS.

Belgium has ordered thirty-four F-35A fighter-bomber aircraft from Lockheed-Martin because it is part of NATO's nuclear plans and, as such, its air force must have aircraft capable of carrying B-61 tactical nuclear bombs made available to it by the United States, in accordance with the so-called dual-key principle.

Peace and security can no longer be taken for granted, he warns

Belgium will have to buy additional combat aircraft and they will be American F-35 aircraft, said Prime Minister Bart De Wever Wednesday in the House's Committee of the Interior. ...

An exclusive visit to the F-35A Lightning II training facility at Luke AFB, Arizona

What’s impressive when you arrive at Luke AFB, Arizona, is the strict safety measures. This fifth-generation aircraft represents such a technological breakthrough that the programme cannot afford the slightest flaw. This represents a considerable challenge for the 20 participants in this programme of unparalleled scope. The first Belgian F-35A Lightning II arrived at Luke in […]