Aviation News
Head of Fleet Air Arm (FAA), Rear Admiral Keith Blount, confirmed at DSEI 2015 that the U.S. Marine Corps will deploys its F-35B STOVL fighter on board both Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers.
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MV-22Bs from VMM-365 took to Piney Island bombing range, North Carolina for their air crew to practice hitting land targets with their GAU-16 .50 caliber machine guns.
Photo By: Cpl. Paul S. Martinez
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Due to a temporary closure of NAS Jacksonville, Training Air Wing 1 and 2 relocated their T-45 Goshawks to MCAS Beaufort Sept. 11-20.
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Photo By: Sgt. Dengrier M. Baez
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The F-35B carried out its first and only shipboard operational testing trial aboard USS Wasp from May 18-25. The Pentagon’s top weapons tester later said the test was so flawed that it “did not — and could not — demonstrate that the … F-35B is operationally effective or suitable for use in any type of limited combat operation.”
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VMU-2 was forced to ditch its RQ-7 unmanned aerial vehicle in the Neuse River on Sept. 10. This was the second time a RQ-7 had to be ditch there in three months.
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