Royal Navy Lieutenant Alan Wootton landed his MV-22 on HMS Illustrious four times when the British carrier passed the USS Kearsarge on Sept. 20 in the Red Sea.
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F-35A arrives at Hill Air Force Base for depot level maintenance
Dignitaries and employees at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, welcomed the first F-35A that will receive depot level maintenance at the base on Sept. 20.
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Japan to develop radar for detecting stealth aircraft
Japan has embarked on a program to develop radar technologies that will detect stealth aircraft. $37 million will be allocated in the defense budget next year for the research.
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First Exercise Arctic Challenge
Norwegian F-16s, Swedish JAS-39s, Finnish F/A-18s and U.K. Eurofighters join U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles, F-15C Eagles and KC-135s in the first Exercise Arctic Challenge in Norway on Sept. 16.
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Lawmakers want USN to reexamine UCLASS approach
U.S. Reps. Randy Forbes and Mike McIntyre, the chairman and ranking members of the House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee, have wrote a letter to Navy Secretary Ray Mabus urging him not to turn UCLASS into a counter-terrorism tool.
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