Day: August 13, 2016

B-52 releases JASSM from internal bay

Posted on August 13, 2016August 13, 2016 by alert5

Equipped with the new Conventional Rotary Launcher, a B-52H bomber has dropped not one but three Joint Attack Surface Standoff Missiles (JASSM) from its internal weapons bay for the first time.

U.S. Air Force image by Christian Turner
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USMC starts 3-year effort to reset 147 CH-53Es

Posted on August 13, 2016August 12, 2016 by alert5

Over the next three years, the U.S. Marine Corps will rotate 147 of its CH-53Es to MCAS Miramar; New River; and Kaneohe Bay for technicians to strip down the rotor-craft, rebuild them and swap out high time components.

By U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/U.S. Fifth Fleet (140804-M-MX805-296) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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