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Head of Fleet Air Arm (FAA), Rear Admiral Keith Blount, confirmed at DSEI 2015 that the U.S. Marine Corps will deploys its F-35B STOVL fighter on board both Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers.
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Due to a temporary closure of NAS Jacksonville, Training Air Wing 1 and 2 relocated their T-45 Goshawks to MCAS Beaufort Sept. 11-20.
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Photo By: Sgt. Dengrier M. Baez
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The first SeaRAM firing from a littoral combat ship has occurred on board U.S.S. Coronado (LCS 4) off the coast of California on Aug. 14.
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The Republic of China Navy has an urgent requirement to give its missile boats a short-range air defense capability and plans to request permission to acquire the shoulder-launched version of FIM-92 Stinger.
By Casey Slusser, U.S. Army (http://www.army.mil/media/234996/) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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A P-8A from VP-8 carried out a AGM-84D Harpoon live missile shot on Aug. 12 during GUAMEX 2015. According to the press release, this was the first fully fueled Harpoon firing for the P-8A.
By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jason Kofonow [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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