F-35 of Royal Netherlands Air Force

F-35 of Royal Netherlands Air Force

F-35 of Royal Netherlands Air Force. Picture shown the Lockheed Martin F-35A variant. The A variant is the conventional lightning II variant. No short take off or vertical landing ability. Another two F-35's variant also known as F-35B and F-35C. The jet fighter spotted while at Leeuwarden Air Base in Netherlands. Royal Netherlands Air Force ordered 37 F-35s and just received two of them as evaluation units. They bought this to replace existing F-16 squadron. Currently they are operating more than 70 F-16s fighting falcon. In special F-16AM and F-16BM variant. Anyway, Netherlands is one of the first country outside United States that allowed to buy Lockheed Martin F-35A. Another countries are Japan and Australia.