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A briefing by Japan’s Chugoku-Shikoku Defense Bureau on Mar. 31 revealed that the U.S. Marine Corps’ VMFA-242 will start operating the F-35B at MCAS Iwakuni from this month.
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Ruselectronics says that its Magistr-SV automated air defense fire control system is cleared to enter limited serial production.
Photo: Roselectronics
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The U.S. Army’s Apache New Equipment Training (NET) team qualifies pilots who fly existing AH-64E version 4 or earlier into a fully qualified V6 pilot. The team is also assisting Saudi Ministry of National Guard (MNG) , Qatar and the United Kingdom customers with the training.
Photo: Mr. William C. Beach, Audiovisual Production Specialist, Test Documentation Team, U.S. Army Operational Test Command
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On this day 20 years ago, a U.S. Navy EP-3E, BuNo 156511, assigned to VQ-1 collided with a People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) J-8 interceptor 110 km off Hainan island.
Staff Sgt. John A Giles, U.S. Marine Corps., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Sunny, a 325th Security Forces Squadron military working dog, is filing for unemployment benefits after his job at Tyndall Air Force Base was taken over by a Quad-legged Unmanned Ground Vehicles (Q-UGV).
U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Anabel Del Valle