A USMC F-35B operating out of Iwakuni, Japan had a bird strike on May 7.
Cpl. Donato Maffin [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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USMC buys the Naval Strike Missile
Raytheon says it has secured a $47.59 million Other Transaction Authority agreement with the U.S. Marine Corps to supply the Naval Strike Missile to the service.
USMC also interested in the Iron Dome anti-missile system
Briefing slides seen by Marine Corps Times suggests the U.S. Marine Corps is interested in integrating the Iron Dome anti-missile system into its arsenal.
Israel Defense Forces and Nehemiya Gershoni נחמיה גרשוני [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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USMC wants its next helicopter to be a tiltrotor
At a panel discussion during the 2019 Sea Air Space expo, the U.S. Marine Corps indicated that it prefer to have a tiltrotor aircraft as the replacement for the H-1 helicopter.
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Pentagon orders review to see whether CH-53K can be replaced by CH-47
A team from the Pentagon’s independent cost analysis and program assessment group visited Boeing last month to review data on how the CH-47 could be adapted for the U.S. Marine Corps.
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