More F-35As arrive in Denmark
January 13, 2025
Denmark purchased a total of 27 Lockheed Martin F-35A fighters, and these will equip frontline squadrons of the Fighter Wing Skrydstrup at Skrydstrup Air Force Station in Southern Jutland.
All pilots and technicians undergo F-35A conversion training at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona in the United States, where six of Denmark’s Joint Strike Fighters are based. Danish pilots then return to Denmark to perform operational tasks.
The first four F-35As arrived in Denmark in September 2023, with four more following in December, and the latest three took off from Luke Airforce Base in Arizona and made a stopover in the Azores before arriving at Skrydstrup on 12 January 2025. The RDAF is building the overall capability of its F-35A force, with the aim of gradually taking over all tasks from the F-16 aircraft over the coming years.
The major milestone for the Air Force in 2025 will be that the F-35A will occasionally be able to augment the F-16 aircraft in the task of maintaining Quick Reaction Alert.
