
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—The Defense Department currently sustains an impressive amount of military capability in the Arctic region through its fourth and fifth generation aircraft and there is plenty more to come as U.S. allies in the region receive and field their F-35 fighters, a DoD official said on Monday. In Alaska, there are now 54 F-35s and combine that with the F-22 that is the “largest concentration” of fifth and fourth generation aircraft, said Iris Ferguson, deputy assistant secretary of…