60 NFS

Six Zero Naval Fighter Squadron (60 NFS), also known by its nickname Ashigaru, is an active Meridonian Navy fighter squadron based at Meridonian Naval Air Station Marin Bay. Its tailcode is NL, and it uses the tactical callsign "Ronin". They are assigned to 6 Carrier Air Group as part of the embarked air wing of the aircraft carrier Kohina. 60 NFS is unique as the only aircraft squadron in the Navy to use insignia of a foreign nation, that of Yamatai.

60 NFS traces its roots to 60 FS, a Meridonian Air Force unit founded in 1936 as one of the first fighter units in the Meridonian Defense Forces. 60 FS served in the Second Escar-Varunan War as an day fighter unit conducting operations in the TBD theatre. It was withdrawn in 1943 and re-established as a carrier training unit 60 NFS to produce pilots for the aircraft carriers TBD and TBD. When the war ended, 60 NFS transitioned into a frontline carrier aviation unit assigned to 1 Carrier Air Group. Seeing deployments aboard the aircraft carriers TBD, TBD, and TBD, 60 NFS was the first Navy squadron to operate the F4 Demon, and adopted their current insignia and callsigns after a lengthy training deployment alongside the Yamatai Imperial Navy's 622nd Naval Air Hikotai, to which they maintain a close-knit relationship to this day. 60 NFS transitioned to F6M Hornet fighters in 1989, serving as a land-based fighter unit due to the lack of operable carriers from 2002-2015. 60 NFS became the Navy's first operational F6M2 Wasp operator in 2008. 60 NFS was assigned to 2 Carrier Air Group in 2010, in anticipation of the commissioning of the Kohina. CDR Ashley Hammonds took command of the squadron on 14 January 2020, becoming the navy's first female fighter squadron commanding officer.

60 NFS is among the oldest active duty aviation squadrons continuously active within the Navy, superseded only by TBD squadron.

Aircraft operated


60 NFS currently operates the F6M2 Wasp D two-seat variant multirole carrier-capable fighter aircraft. In their history, they have operated the TBD, TBD, TBD, F4 Demon, and.