U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Meshaq Hylton.
The U.S. Marine Corps’ (USMC) newest helicopter, the heavy-hauling CH-53K King Stallion, successfully lifted a U.S. Navy F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter on December 13th of last year. Details on the demonstration, as well as accompanying images, were released on January 23.
The exercise took place at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. This involved a CH-53K helicopter belonging to USMC Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron One (VMX-1) lifting the Navy’s first F-35C prototype, ‘CF-01,‘ or ‘CF-1.