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The Boeing T-X advanced jet trainer took to the air for the first time on Dec. 20 with lead T-X Test Pilot Steven Schmidt and Chief Pilot for Air Force Programs Dan Draeger in the cockpit.
The crash of a HMH-464 CH-53 in September last year, which claimed the life of a Marine, revealed a previously unknown issue on the type’s tail rotor drive shaft.
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By U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Angel Roman-Otero. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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South Korea has decided to start the mass production of its indigenous M-SAM air defense system in 2017.
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U.S. Marine Corps has allowed the MV-22s deployed to Japan to resume flying. The tiltrotors were grounded after one ditched off the coast of Okinawa Dec. 13.
Screen grab from NHK video
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