The U.S. Marine Corps has resumed flights of its F-35Bs with four arriving in NAS Patuxent River from NAS Yuma.
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U.S. Navy tests radar-absorbing, carbon-fiber clouds for anti-ship missile defense
The U.S. Navy is testing a shipboard device that generates a radar-absorbing, carbon-fiber cloud to defeat anti-ship missiles.
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Raytheon to add infrared marker on ATFLIR
Raytheon has been given a $14 million contract to add an infrared marker into the existing Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) pods.
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U.S. Navy to retire VT-86’s Rockwell T-39 Sabreliner
The U.S. Navy will retire its last Rockwell T-39 Sabreliner with VT-86 in August. One single T-39D will remain in service with VX-31.
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Cost of upgrading F-35 reduced by $920 million
The Pentagon projected that it will only have to spend $1.65 billion instead of $2.57 billion to upgrade and fix problems found on early production batches of the F-35.