Next-generation stealth fighters armed with the most blistering firepower and technology ever developed could soon be touching down in Scotland.
The first of the RAF and Royal Navy ’s £100million F-35 Lightning II jets are expected to arrive on British soil this summer.
They will go on to spearhead military operations around the world, with the ability to make vertical take-offs and landings from Clyde-built aircraft carriers HMS Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales.