美国人自己都看不下去了。
"They had 35 of them fly over Japan ... and they were not detected by the radar. They flew over and everyone said where the hell did they come from? That's stealth. It's pretty cool, right," Time quotes Trump as saying in the interview.
"Thirty-five of them flying at a high speed, low, and they were not detected. They flew right over the top of the deal, nobody knew they were coming. Pretty cool, right?" the US commander-in-chief is quoted as saying.
Pretty cool? Might have been if it had actually happened, but this seems highly unlikely.
First up, only 10 of the 16 US Marine Corps stealth fighters in the first-ever overseas deployment of F-35s are reported to have arrived in the country.
And the arrival of those first jets -- weeks before Mattis' visit -- didn't surprise anyone as the Marines announced their deployment well beforehand.
And when those jets arrived they were not screaming over Japan like Maverick and Goose buzzing the tower in "Top Gun" -- they landed in an orderly manner at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni.
Could there have been other F-35s in Japan at that time? Well, that would have been top-secret as the only other overseas deployment of the jets was a small number of Air Force F-35s to Europe in April.
