A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 had to make an emergency landing in shallow water off the Okinawa coastline of Camp Schwab at approximately 10:00 p.m., Dec. 13.
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Category: Marines
USMC execute largest long-range raid exercise in 14 years
Various units from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing and 1st Marine Division came together in Southern California and Arizona to execute exercise Seahorse Wind.
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10 years ago this month, Jon Beesley took the F-35 into the air for the first time
Retired Lockheed Martin test pilot Jon Beesley was back in Fort Worth this month to celebrate the first flight of the F-35. Beesley flew the maiden flight of the F-35 on Dec. 15, 2006.
461 FLTS brought all 3 F-35 variants together to hunt for GBADS
At Edwards Air Force Base, the 461st Flight Test Squadron is employing all three variants of the F-35 to test whether each variant’s on board Multifunction Advanced Data Link (MADL) could talk to each other during a hunt for Ground Based Air Defense System.
By U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Katerina Slivinske [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Pentagon’s chief weapons tester said his colleagues lied about the F-35 program
Dr. J. Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, said in a memo to Frank Kendall, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, that a draft response to Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain had contained misleading information.
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By Staff Sgt. Madelyn Brown [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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