Originally Posted by
orca
LJ,
The picture you post by way of (quite rightly) demonstrating that the Italian Navy flies the B model - also shows that someone has been kind enough to paint MARINA on the side in letters each bigger than most roundels.
Assuming this isn’t an advert for somewhere to store one’s yacht - can we perhaps conclude F-35s are adequately marked?
Is it that unusual to have a woman’s name on the side of an aircraft. Marina is a woman’s name, is it not?
But really, the roundel (of different colours) is used by several nations expecting to operate the F35 variants. The variants aren’t too dissimilar in normal horizontal flight and so I argue that this is not right and does not meet the supposed International Law for State Aircraft. This is the first time we have painted our roundel on a combat jet aircraft that confusingly matches that of other nations. If we don’t want to stick to that convention agreed then why bother with any markings at all?