Fighters Two F-35 fighter jets flew to Finland on Thursday

Two The F-35 will visit Finland during the weekend, when the main flight show of the Finnish Civil Aviation Association will be held in Pori.

The planes arrived in Finland on Thursday. The visit is the first since the Air Force chose the Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II destroyer as its new fighter in December.

Two US European Air Force planes arrive in Pori from the British Lakenheath base. They are on display at the land show and are not participating in the flight program, which may be disappointing for many.

At a press conference held in Helsinki on Thursday, partly due to the show, manufacturer Lockheed Martin said that the Finnish fighter project is progressing on schedule.

Russia’s attack on Ukraine was covered by media issues, but the manufacturer’s representatives did not comment. However, it became clear that the war had no effect on the project itself.

It is now known from the schedule that the first Finnish aircraft will be completed in 2025, but they will remain in Texas for the purpose of training Finnish pilots. Next year, the first planes will arrive in Finland and Lapland Airport in Rovaniemi.

Read more: Finland’s first F-35 fighters will be flown by the Lapland Air Force

All 64 aircraft are scheduled to be in Finland by 2030.

At the press conference The speeches of the manufacturer’s representatives showed that Finland had chosen the F-35. And Finland is not the only one, as the type of aircraft will become the most common fighter in Europe in the 1930s.

About 550 of them will come to Europe, with Germany and Switzerland also being the newest countries.

Country Manager for Finland and Sweden, Lockheed Martin’s Aeronautics business unit Scott Davis described the F-35 as safeguarding Finland’s freedom and well-being for years to come. According to him, some user countries plan to fly on them until the 2070s.

Davis also presented the company’s figures on how the price of a flight hour has dropped in recent years while maintenance costs are falling. The plane, he says, will now be able to fly for 9.6 hours before requiring any maintenance. The requirement is six hours.

The company test pilot Scott McLaren summarized the features of the machine as follows:

“Because of its fade capability, it can go where others can’t go,” Mclaren said.

“It is gamechanger. ”

It means the superior situational awareness that the aircraft provides to the pilot.

A pilot can better focus on his or her actual mission when he or she is given a wide-screen view of all the essential events on earth and in the air, his own and his enemies.

The machine, he says, is superior to all fourth-generation fighters precisely because of the fade feature. It is not possible to build one on top of older machines.