The U.S. Marine Corps has constructed sloped landing pads of various gradients at MCALF Bogue in order to gauge how the F-35B performs on such surfaces.
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Incident involving Bulgaria’s C-27J
Bulgaria’s fleet of three C-27Js are all unable to fly after the last serviceable aircraft was involved in an accident at Graf Ignatievo Airport on Jan. 20.
By Aldo Bidini [GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2], via Wikimedia Commons
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India to test 800-km range BrahMos later this year
India is working on increasing the range of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile to 800km and this variant will be tested by this year.
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Japan deploying its F-35A at Misawa this month
Japan is ready to deploy the F-35A and the first aircraft will go to Misawa airbase this month, NHK reports.
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911th Airlift Wing’s final C-130 deployment
Four C-130Hs assigned to the 911th Airlift Wing has returned home to Pittsburgh after a four-month deployment to Qatar. This is the final C-130 deployment for the unit as it will be transitioning to the C-17 later this year.
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