F-35A Lightning II — 2 museum-grade prints, engineered to a wall. The F-35 Lightning II emerged from the multinational JSF programme as a fifth-generation stealth fighter integrating sensor fusion, low observables, and internal weapons carriage across F-35A, B, and C variants. Japan selected the F-35A as the primary successor to its ageing F-4 Phantom fleet, with the 302nd Squadron at Misawa among the first JASDF units to transition after decades of Phantom operations from its 1974 stand-up at Chitose. Norway's F-35A procurement replaced the F-16 as the backbone of Luftforsvaret fighter aviation, with 332 Skvadron at Ørland Air Station under 132 Luftving carrying the first operational Norwegian Lightnings. The CTOL variant Norway selected includes a drag chute for short and icy runway operations — a detail unique among many F-35A export customers and suited to Scandinavian basing.