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AV-8Bs try out mobile Expeditionary Hover Position Indicator at MCAS Iwakuni

Posted on August 13, 2016August 13, 2016 by alert5

USMC AV-8B pilots has to switched to a mobile version of the Expeditionary Hover Position Indicator at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan as the current recertification site is under reconstruction.

A U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier with Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 542 performs a vertical landing while using the lights on the mobile Expeditionary Hover Position Indicator to adjust its position at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Aug. 9, 2016. VMA-542 is home based out of Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., and is forward deployed to MCAS Iwakuni, Japan, as part of the unit deployment program. The Harrier pilots used the mobile EHPI in coordination with Aircraft Recovery assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron to recertify on boat-deck landings to prepare for other future operations in the Pacific. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Donato Maffin)

USMC starts 3-year effort to reset 147 CH-53Es

Posted on August 13, 2016August 12, 2016 by alert5

Over the next three years, the U.S. Marine Corps will rotate 147 of its CH-53Es to MCAS Miramar; New River; and Kaneohe Bay for technicians to strip down the rotor-craft, rebuild them and swap out high time components.

By U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/U.S. Fifth Fleet (140804-M-MX805-296) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Singapore walks away from F-35B, for now

Posted on August 10, 2016August 10, 2016 by alert5

Bloomberg reported that Singapore has decided not to buy the F-35B, it had submitted a letter of request to buy four aircraft with options for eight more in 2014.

By U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Lillian Stephens [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons