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The U.S. Marine Corps is on schedule to deploy a F-35C squadron aboard an aircraft carrier and will accelerate the purchase of F-35Cs in order to ensure that units earmarked to receive the carrier-borne variant meet their planned transition and deployment deadlines.
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A Spanish Air Force C295, tail number T.21-10, was badly damaged after it overran the runway after a hard landing at Santa Cilia Airfield on Apr. 4.
Boeing has engaged NATO in exploratory talks to plug a gap in the alliance’s maritime surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities with the P-8A.
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The U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs told a think tank recently that the Pentagon is in talks with Vietnam to send an aircraft carrier to the country this year.
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Director, Joint Strike Fighter Program, Vice Admiral Mathias W. “Mat” Winter, told U.S. lawmakers that “future potential Foreign Military Sales customers (for the F-35) include Singapore, Greece, Romania, Spain and Poland.”
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