The C variant will operate from USN carriers - not the B, the F-35b will be used by the USMC on board amphibs, it was designed to be a short take-off variant for use on smaller decks.
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The USMC will also operate the F-35c as part of its deployment on US carriers, but the Navy will not use the B
It seems F-35B will have limited capability compared to F-35C with larger wing and launched by catapult.
Probably F-35B will be limited as attack a/c?
USS Wasp and F-35B, V-22 are for USMC. When Japan adopt that idea with Izumo and F-35B, mV-22b, we could guess they use those as similar purpose.
F-35B as air cover for the fleet and mV-22b for fast deployment of troops to remote islands.
This is older design.
This is new idea
MV-22B with max payload 9 tons or 32 troops and speed from 446 km/h to top speed 565km/h and combat radius 722 km; range 1,627 km
could do many things which other design unable to do or do with less effective. It could transport the troops or cargos to nearly anywhere offshore of Japan.
There is no new designed of Izumo/Hyuga that is able to operate F-35B at the moment.
In fact it is still long way to go if Japan want to convert the Izumo so that it can operate F-35B effectively.
This is for you to wake up from day dreaming:
F-35 conundrum
Let’s get this straight: yes, the
Izumo is long enough for launching planes with short take-off and vertical landing (or STOVL) capabilities, and yes, Japan is purchasing the F-35 which has a STOVL-capable F-35B. These two facts have driven rumors of Japanese intentions to convert the
Izumo into a conventional carrier.
These rumors are ignorant and deluded.
First, let’s look at the F-35 that Tokyo is actually buying: the conventional take-off and landing F-35A, not the STOVL-capable F-35B or even catapult-compatible F-35C you’d expect to see gracing an aircraft carrier. Furthermore, these jets will be going the Air Self-Defense Force rather than the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
Even were the MSDF to buy some F-35Bs for their boat, the purchase will take several years to grow fruit. The selection process for the ASDF purchase of 42 F-35As
began in July 2009 following the U.S. Senate ban on exports of the F-22; and only four U.S.-made planes will enter service by 2017 while the other 38 will be built domestically for completion by 2021
at the earliest. Any attempt to pick up the F-35B would require a few years lead time in order to adequately meet Japanese government bidding requirements.
Leaving aside the airframes, several other hurdles remain before F-35s can take off from the Izumo’s deck.
One of these is the lack of carrier operation skills within the MSDF itself. Japan has not operated naval fighters since 1945. Pilots will need training in combat flight and carrier operations, so will all of the the support staff who safely help get the birds in the air. While the MSDF would surely be able to cross-train with the ASDF and U.S. Navy, it adds more time, effort and money into the conversion process.
There are also numerous hurdles. Japan’s military will have to jet-proof the deck, as well as to arrange and fit the equipment necessary to support a jet.
Critics are viewing the
Izumo as a de facto strike carrier — bringing to mind Japan’s supposed
“latent” or “virtual” nuclear capability in which Japan has the technology and know-how to build a nuclear weapon at very short notice. While they may be technologically capable in both regards,
such views of Japanese capabilities ignore public resistance to having a combat-ready fighter-carrying aircraft carrier, as well as the budgetary restraints faced by the MSDF. It also ignores the immediacy and enormity of a threat that would be required to force Japan’s hand, particularly while it is able to benefit from the carrier-borne protection provided courtesy of the U.S. Navy.
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