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AV-8Bs dogfight and took gas from Super Hornets over Arabian Sea

Posted on May 20, 2019May 20, 2019 by alert5

AV-8Bs assigned to VMA-231 had a chance to practice dissimilar air combat training (DACT) exercise with Super Hornets from CVW 7 over the Arabian Sea recently.

F-35B Class A mishap at Iwakuni, Japan

Posted on May 13, 2019May 13, 2019 by alert5

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

Posted on May 9, 2019 by alert5

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.

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USMC also interested in the Iron Dome anti-missile system

Posted on May 8, 2019May 8, 2019 by alert5

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

Posted on May 8, 2019 by alert5

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.

Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 267 AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom helicopters past Mount Fuji, Shizuoka, Japan, March 12, 2017. The squadron, currently supporting Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force through the unit deployment program, validated the long-range capability of auxiliary fuel tanks on their H-1 platform helicopters by flying 314 nautical miles during one leg of the four-day mission, March 10. These aircrafts’ extended range is crucial to maintaining a stronger, more capable forward-deployed force in readiness in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. The squadron is based out of Camp Pendleton, California. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Andy Martinez)

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