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A report from Defense News says the U.S. Marine Corps is looking at adding vertical landing and aerial refueling segments to its F-35B flying display at Royal International Air Tattoo and Farnborough Airshow.
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The U.S. Navy has delivered the first fixed-wing aircraft variant of the Advanced Precision Kill Weapons System (APKWS) to VMA-233 in theater.
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The Assistant U.S. Secretary of the Navy Sean Stackley told lawmakers on Mar. 23 that the U.S. Marine Corps is on schedule to deploy the F-35B to MCAS Iwakuni in January 2017.
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F-35 Joint Program Office Chief Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan told reporters that the F-35 will be flying till 2070, six years longer than planned.
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