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When the F-35C gets “feet wet” during its upcoming sea trials in October, the U.S. Navy will further stress the jet by having it operate with a full internal weapons load.
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When the U.S. Air Force’s 129th Rescue Wing needed to have their HH-60Gs undergo their 600-hour phase inspections, the unit choose the Navy’s Fleet Readiness Center Southeast (FRCSE) to carry out the job.
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Sea trials for aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford has been pushed back by six to eight weeks as shipboard testing are taking longer than expected.
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TASS says Egypt has agreed to buy over 50 Ka-52 naval helicopters that Russia had produce to deploy on the Mistral helicopter carriers.
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Textron AirLand president Bill Anderson told Flight Global that his company is trying to get the U.S. Navy interested in its Scorpion jet.
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