The US sent a squadron of F-35 to Iran

The United States has deployed a group of four fifth-generation F-35C stealth fighters of the US Marine Corps to the Middle East, the Military Air Tracking Alliance (MATA) aviation resource reported.

The planes took off from Lakenheath Air Base in the UK, where they were temporarily staying after a flight from the Miramar Marine Corps Air Base in California.

In total, the United States plans to send ten such vertical take-off and landing aircraft to the Middle East region. The final destination in the area of responsibility of the US Central Command (CENTCOM) is unknown.

According to the publication The War Zone, the F-35C fighters sent to the region will become a critical means of direct air support to strengthen the Marine expeditionary battalion.

As reported by the American media, an amphibious assault group of three US Navy amphibious assault ships with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Battalion will arrive in the Arabian Sea in the CENTCOM area of responsibility in the near future. 20 F—35B vertical take—off and landing fighters are based on the group's flagship, the universal aircraft-carrying amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli. In two more days, the ship group will have to arrive in the Strait of Hormuz.