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First ever hot load of the GBU-32 on F-35B

Posted on April 7, 2017 by alert5

VMFA-211 partnered with MAWTS-1 to conduct the first ever hot load of a GBU-32 on an F-35B MCAS Yuma, Apr. 4.

Photo By: Cpl. Harley Robinson
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CH-53K cleared for production

Posted on April 7, 2017April 6, 2017 by alert5

The Pentagon has approved the U.S. Navy’s request for the CH-53K King Stallion heavy lift helicopter program to enter into the Production and Deployment.

The CH-53K King Stallion helicopter achieves its first flight with an external load at Sikorsky's Development Flight Test Center in West Palm Beach, FL. (PRNewsFoto/Lockheed Martin)

Former A-6E NFO selected to be next F-35 program manager

Posted on March 29, 2017March 29, 2017 by alert5

The current deputy program manager for the F-35 office, Rear Adm. Mat Winter, is expected to step up and replace the retiring Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan.

141211-N-PO203-016 ARLINGTON, Va. (Dec. 11, 2014) Rear Adm. Mathias W. Winter, Chief of Naval Research. (U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams/Released)

F-35Bs have carried out simulated bombing runs in South Korea

Posted on March 27, 2017March 27, 2017 by alert5

Yonhap reported that six to eight F-35Bs have been to South Korea and the pilots carried out simulated bomb runs at the Pilsung Shooting Range in the eastern province of Gangwon last week.

By U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Lillian Stephens [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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VMFA-232 pilot went below Safe Escape altitude during strafing run

Posted on March 27, 2017March 26, 2017 by alert5

The U.S. Marine Corps had determined that the crash of a VMFA-232 F/A-18C that claimed the life of Maj. R. Sterling Norton was an accident.

Photo: U.S. Marine Corps
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