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A Royal Air Force Voyager aerial refueling tanker has been deployed to NAS Patuxent River since Apr. 16 to support air-to-air refueling trials with the F-35B.
Photo: Royal Air Force
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The U.S. Marine Corps will have to wait till 2018 before it can deploy the MV-22B as an airborne tanker for its aviation elements.
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The F-35B clocked its 1,000th vertical landing at NAS Patuxent River with BAE Systems test pilot Peter ‘Wizzer’ Wilson at the controls.
By U.S. Air Force photo by Samuel King [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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VMA-211 flew its last AV-8B flight on May 6 and three days later the first two F-35Bs for the unit arrived at MCAS Yuma on May 9.
The U.S. Marine Corps has laid out an ambitious plan to covert all its 79 KC-130J aerial refueling tankers into Harvest Hawk-capable platforms.
By Cpl Samantha H. Arrington [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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