More than 150 Marines from VMFA-224 have left MCAS Beaufort for Japan where they will relieve VMFA-122 and station in the Pacific for six-months.
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F-35 engine fix coming
Lt. Gen. Christopher C. Bogdan, program manager for the F-35, goes thru various short-term and long-term solutions to fix the problem on the F135 engine.
USMC decided to retire Harriers before Hornets
The U.S. Marine Corps road map for retiring the F/A-18 and AV-8B has changed. Instead of retiring the Hornet before the Harrier, the service has decided on the opposite.
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Sweetman: J-20 is analogous to Tu-22M2/3
Bill Sweetman said in his latest article on the J-20 that the Chinese fighter “could turn out to be an analogue to the Soviet-era Tu-22M2/3 Backfire bomber.”
Photos: Ground-based air defense system at Zhuhai airshow
