Japan’s cabinet approved a plan to modify the Japanese navy’s two Izumo-class helicopter carriers to embark F-35B STEALTH FIGHTERS. The modifications should result in the Japanese fleet operating, for the first time since World War II, flattops with fixed-wing aircraft. With the two ships and their new planes, Tokyo could be able to duplicate the United Kingdom’s own 1982 campaign to retake the Falkland Islands from invading Argentine forces.
