Aviation News
Appearing before the U.S. Senate Armed Services seapower committee, Deputy Commandant of the Marine Corps for Aviation Lt. Gen. Jon Davis told lawmakers that his service’s F-35Bs are not affected by a software bug that causes the APG-81 radar to reset in flight.
By U.S. Air Force photo by Samuel King [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The DoD has issued a notice to modify the V-22 so that a 18-inch gimbaled multispectral sensor can be lowered from the tilt-rotor’s cargo hold well.
By Peter Gronemann (Flickr: V22-Osprey) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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At a hearing for the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, the Deputy Commandant of the Marine Corps for Aviation told lawmakers that the service has borrowed some MQ-8Cs from the Navy to see how they could be operated from the amphibious assault ships.
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The Sikorsky CH-53K has completed its first external load flight test Apr. 19, lifting a 12,000 pound external load in a hover.
Head of the Spanish Navy Adm. Jaime Muñoz-Delgado said his service might have to adopt the F-35B once the current AV-8Bs’ ran out of lifespan in the next decade.
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