The next generation of fighter aircraft for the RAF and the Royal Navy have landed at their new home in Marham, Norfolk.

The F35 Lightning stealth warplanes each cost nearly £100m. Britain has 15 of the short takeoff and vertical landing aircraft and will buy 138 in total from American aviation giant Lockheed Martin.

They will former part of the newly reformed 617 Squadron which was the famous Dambusters flying unit from the Second World War. They will operate on land and at sea including off the decks of the new £3.1 billion Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers.

The first four F35s were flown 3,000 miles across the Atlantic from South Carolina on an eight hour journey supported by midair refuelling.

Around £550m has been invested in RAF Marham as part of a major change programme to get the base ready to house the new jets.

This extended ITV News Anglia video of the arrivals on Wednesday 6 June 2018

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