High Tension : US Air Force Deploys 52 F-35 Stealth Fighter Jets to Begin Drills in Near Iran

Fifty-two F-35A Lightning II stealth fighter jets - worth $4.2 billion - took to the runway as Utah's Hill Air Force Base hosted a Combat Power Exercise.

The exercise represented the achievement of full warfighting capability for the F35, estimated to be the most expensive military program ever, which has been marked by controversies, technical issues and cost overruns.

As tensions grow with Iran, the Pentagon send six B-52 strategic bombers to Diego Garcia, a British-controlled island in the Indian Ocean.

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