The Pentagon has further eased restrictions imposed on the F-35 test fleet by allowing the roughly twenty jets to to fly six hours between engine inspection if their missions involved aerial refueling missions and weapons testing.
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Category: Marines
Pentagon moved V-22s into Northern Iraq
The Pentagon has moved a small number of V-22s to city of Irbil, Northern Iraq to support American troops there.
First East Coast AMRAAM exercise
VNA-223 conducted the first East Coast Harrier squadron AMRAAM firing exercise off the coast of Virginia Aug. 7.
K-Max crashed in Afghanistan due to human error
The operators behind a K-Max unmanned cargo delivering helicopter were slow to react to prevent its crash on Jun. 5, 2013.
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USMC to retire UN-1N in September; HH-1N next year
HMLA-773 will retire the last U.S. Marine Corps UH-1N in September when it fully transition to the UH-1Y.
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