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Marine Corps F-35B Flies 5,000 Hours With No Mishaps

The Marine Corps’ F-35B iteration is certainly the most complex mechanically of the three Lightning II models.

F-35 Squadron Flew A 'Historic' 5,000 Hours Without A Single Mishap

Doing anything for 5,000 hours without a mistake is great, much less flying an F-35. And an entire squadron having zero ...
Walking Archive on MSN

F-35B Lightning II Jet Above the East China Sea

An F-35B Lightning II attack jet flies alongside a KC-130J tanker aircraft attached to a refueling drogue during an aerial ...

A look at the U.S. military’s unusually large force in the Caribbean Sea

The Navy has eight warships in the region — three destroyers, three amphibious assault ships, a cruiser and a smaller ...

Air Force B-52 bombers flew ‘attack demonstration’ near Venezuela

Multiple B-52H Stratofortress bombers flew for hours off the coast of Venezuela amid lethal military strikes on vessels in ...
Stars and Stripes

UK fighter makes precautionary landing at airport in southern Japan

A British F-35B Lightning II made a precautionary landing in southern Japan this week while en route to a carrier taking part with U.S. and Japanese forces in a multinational exercise, according to ...
Marine Corps Times on MSN

Air Force conducts ‘bomber attack’ demonstration near Venezuela

The flight was intended to demonstrate “U.S. commitment to proactively deter adversary threats to the U.S. homeland," ...
The National Interest

F-35B to Take-off and Land on British and Japanese Warships in New War Game

As the product of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, the F-35 platform was conceptualized to fulfill the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s advanced short take-off/vertical landing ...