The loading of the F-35 weapon bays requires special ground equipment and careful operation by the ground crew. The loading here was in exercise Combat Hammer 2018 at Hill AFB

The loading of the F-35 weapon bays requires special ground equipment and careful operation by the ground crew. The loading here was in exercise Combat Hammer 2018 at Hill AFB

Two Italian F-35s showing of their full load out. Unfortunately, the F-35B does not have its weapon bays open for comparison with the F-35A

UK Carrier Strike Group 21 was trail-blazing in many ways. One of those was the first employment of the GBU-49 from an F-35B

An F-35B getting off the tanker during operation Octave Quartz 2021. This aircraft is equipped with the gun pod participated over an undisclosed area over east Africa

GBU-12 Paveway II is released from an F-35A Lightning II during a trial flown by test pilot Michael Klingen