The newest helicopter for the US Marines has been pictured transporting an F-35 while carrying out air-to-air refuelling.
US Marines flew a CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopter with the airframe of an F-35C Lightning jet below it.
The King Stallion is the US Department of Defense’s most powerful helicopter and it carried the inoperable aircraft from the F-35 Integrated Test Force at Patuxent River (Pax ITF) to a navy unit located at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.
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The F-35 was without its mission and propulsion systems or outer wings and was transported to the Prototype, Manufacturing and Test (PMT) department of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) Lakehurst for use in future emergency recovery systems testing.