A Royal Navy commodore who is the Naval Attaché to the USA has spoken about how F-35Bs operating in ‘Beast Mode’ from HMS Prince of Wales are helping to push the jets’ capabilities.
The Royal Navy carrier has been training with US aircraft ahead of her deployment to the Indo-Pacific region in 2025, where she will lead a Carrier Strike Group.
Commodore Roger Readwin told Forces News: “It’s all about lethality, it’s about how do we take this capability and exploit it.”
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It was the UK that came up with a vertical takeoff jet known as the HARRIER JUMB JET. How come the US outsmart them in incorporating the system in F35B and the UK has nothing to show??
41 years since they've protected UK terrority. Great value for money.
Amazing 👍❤
Yet we are still being invaded by the worlds rubbish on small boats and destroyed 🤔 hmmmm, it’s almost as if you don’t serve the British public and exist to protect a bunch of globalist/Zionists that hate us.
….Argentina has left the chat….
Beast Mode………
Bwahahahaaaaa!!
Beast Mode………
Bwahahahaaaaa!!
If they had fitted cats and traps we could have had the cheaper and more capable F35C in the first place
f22 > f35
Just a big fat target hyped up. Can’t even get the crew to crew it, forget about aircraft and pilots lol, British defence joke
Abandon ship! Kinzhal incoming!
He just learned the word niche and he's damn well gonna use it…
Say what you like, but there's no denying that it's a beautiful jet fighter.
F35 is old tech.
Any real news on the UFO tech thats 100s of year ahead of this ??
Beast mode – translates to carrying some small weapons payload.
0:30 ayoo Force News, what kind of transition is this? 😀
Trying to get top kit on the cheap by using US f35 rather than buying our own, this country no longer has the ability to launch a stand alone operation like the Falklands, embarrassing politicians going back decades have sold us down the river to the point where we are now a defence force rather than a proper military
Both US and UK need each other more now then ever,we also need to bring in AUS,NZ and CAN
F-35 israel chipset mode makes the jet fall into the sea
LMAOOOOOOOOO
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Whenever they say that US planes can operate off UK carriers I become concerned that the UK may not be allowed to operate it's carriers where it likes.
It's been pretty obvious since Suez that the UK is stopped operating where it wishes, without USA say so. Yet in relying so heavily on US kit instead of developing it's own, and now having the USA deploy on it's carriers is a whole new level. Where will it end?
Duh, that's what the B stands for
Keep pushing it…
We need every fighter in the Pacific and yet we are wasting time cover the Brits ass so that their politicians can spin this "muh interoperablity" nonesense because thier government is stupid enough to buy two carriers without aircraft! I hope they are at least paying for the wear and tear of OUR jets flying from THIER ships. This is ridiculous!
"Best mode" – what daft gamer terminology is this?
No aircraft here were in beast mode 🤦🏻♂️
Has Forces News been taking cinematic inspiration from the Royal Marines social media team?
Who does the captions for these videos? It's "royal navy pilots", not "raw navy pilots". Haha.
Well that answers the question of how many meaningless buzzwords you can cramp into a typical middle management goons PowerPoint talk…
the Commodore seems to think he needs to use the word "lethality" as often as possible. he doesn't.
No mention of increased defence spending, in last weeks autumn statement, a new populist leader in Argentina, whose aim is to regain the Falklands, looking good for future deployment for our two carriers and our under resourced armed forces.
This civil servant – who is evidently not accustomed to giving interviews – did nothing more than use a lot of buzz words. He said nothing. The F35B is fundamentally flawed; it is over weight and, with only one engine, under powered.
5th gen plane, but a carrier crew who even all working together couldn’t pass the 11+. 😂
Beast mode… until everyone, literally everyone, leaves an intake blank still fitted to the jet. Then with a flop, off the end of the ramp, the jet transforms into submarine mode.
Alright…so clickbait then? You didn't even discuss what beast mode means, the weapon loads etc. If we don't start getting some decent videos then do you think people will actually pay attention to this? We are PAYING for this content through taxes…give us our moneys' worth.
What a waste of time the video told me nothing other then they are working with the USMC but we all know that it told us nothing what “BEAST MODE”is. I’m sure it’s just hype for public relations.😡
Imagine Australia’s two LHDs being upgraded to operate B models as well. They have the ski jump designed just for that, and the Spanish vessels of the same class can. It’s been argued that the cost would not be high, and the advantage way higher.A single squadron of B models operated by the RAAF would add flexibility to both the RAAF and the RANs LHDs, and time on station at longer ranges to Australia’s existing F-35A fleet which would need tankers and time to perform the same tasks.
Interoperability with the RAN, RN and USN already happens, so I don’t see why this couldn’t include all three doing cross-deck operations either.
still no Royal Navy jets operating yet?
Will UK F-35Bs be getting any of the following:
– HARM, AARGM, AARGM-ER
– JASSM, JASSM-ER, JASSM-XR
– SiAW
– JSM
– JDAM, JDAM-ER, Powered JDAM
– FC/ASW
– The BriteCloud decoy
I know the UK F-35Bs will be getting Meteor and SPEAR 3 in Block 4. When will SPEAR EW enter service with the UK's F-35Bs?
Do F-35Bs have an EPIRB emergency locator in case one crashes into the sea?
Could Taranis be RATO-launched from the QE and PoW?
If so, it would make sense to get Taranis into production I'd have thought for very long-range, very long-endurance, stealthy, ISTAR and UCAV capability. We're going to need that sort of range in the event of a war with China.
nice to see USMC getting use out of our carriers.. was there even one British F-35B in this video?
"Niche". An out of everyone's way place where useless pieces of tat are displayed to gather dust.
To me a 4,5th generation fighter aircraft like the Typhoon or the Rafale are more beautiful.
useless jet