Deadly ultra-modern fighter jets worth £100million have arrived in the UK and will “make Putin sweat”, according to a military source.
As international tensions reach unprecedented levels, £300m worth of supersonic F-35B Lightning jets have been landing one after the other at RAF Marham in Norfolk.
The menacing aircrafts, flown in from the US, can carry 22,000lbs of firepower including eight Paveway laser-guided missiles and come with a terrifying “beast mode”.
With a maximum speed of 1,200mph and capable of flying at 50,000ft the jets; infrared homing bombs are designed to outperform other airborne bombs.
The bombers are the first to outsmart radar stealth technology with supersonic speeds with a wing span of 35ft and requiring just a 450ft runway to take-off.
A witness watching the planes land told The Sun that the war machines “will leave Putin or any enemy in a sweat.”
They also can take off and land vertically and will be jointly manned by the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy, operating from land and sea, report Mirror Online.
Three more of the stealth jets will arrive this year, and seven more in 2023, with an expectation that all of the 48 in the first batch will be delivered by the end of 2025.
It comes as the Russian president lied and said that Russia is not bombing Ukrainian cities despite US estimates suggesting at least 500 missiles have been fired by Moscow.
Vladimir Putin has overseen the constant shelling of Ukraine with both military and civilian structures have been targeted, and hundreds of people killed.
And 100 people are feared to have been buried under rubble after an apartment block near the capital Kyiv was struck, while a cluster bomb attack killed 49 people in Chernihiv.
Meanwhile, special forces in the US and UK are said to be preparing for a high-risk rescue mission to save the Ukrainian President.
Russian Spetsnaz special forces are now said to be targeting Volodymyr Zelensky and troops are looking at re-locating the presiden out of Kyiv.
And protesters braved a hail of gunfire as they marched towards Russian troops in an occupied Ukrainian city.
The demonstrators stalked the retreating Russian soldiers in Melitopol amid demonstrations in occupied cities across Ukraine.
Russia also vowed to take ‘retaliatory measures’ against the UK over its so-called ‘sanctions hysteria’ today.
And efforts to evacuate Mariupol were halted as Russian shelling of escape routes continued despite a ceasefire.
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