F 35 Lightning II Wall Art — 2 museum-grade prints on the theme. 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. The F-35A is the conventional takeoff and landing variant of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter — single Pratt & Whitney F135 engine, internal weapons bays in clean configuration, and the AN/APG-81 AESA radar at the heart of a sensor-fusion cockpit. Hill AFB's 388th Fighter Wing became the USAF's first operational F-35A wing, with the 34th Fighter Squadron — the Rude Rams — among the lead units flying the type from northern Utah.