Aviation News
Speaking to Breaking Defense, a Kuwait-based defense analyst has said that the U.S. Marine Corps is interested in taking over Kuwait’s F/A-18s when they are retired from service.
Mike Freer – Touchdown-aviation (GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2), via Wikimedia Commons
USS Tripoli is now certified to operate the F-35B following the first launch and recovery of the fighter on board the warship on Jan. 11.
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A USMC AH-1Z BuNo. 169503 from VMM-265 (Rein) was forced to make an emergency landing at a helipad on Tonaki Island on Jan. 13.
A AH-1Z attack helicopter assigned to HMLA-773 made a hard landing in an open field outside the fence line of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst on Jan. 6.
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In a test over the Atlantic Ocean last month, the CH-53K conducted over-the-horizon heavy lift and troop transport ship-to-shore operations for the first time from USS Iwo Jima.
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