USN-Marine Corps Team Tests New Technologies for the Amphibious Strike Force

05/11/2017
05/11/2017: The Navy (All Hands Magazine) and U.S. Marine Corps team officially wrapped up the Ship-to-Shore Maneuver Exploration and Experimentation Advanced Naval Technology Exercise 2017 this month at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. Marines and sailors field-tested more than 50 new technologies, everything from swarming unmanned surface vessels to self-driving…

F-35 at Northern Edge

05/09/2017
05/09/2017: U.S. Marines from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 perform preflight operational checks on a U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II aircraft at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, May 4, 2017. Northern Edge, Alaska’s largest and premier joint training exercise, is designed to enhance interoperability among the services and ensure service members…

MV-22 Trans Pacific Flight to Australia

05/09/2017
05/09/2017: ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE BASE, Darwin – Four MV-22 Ospreys with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 268, Marine Rotational Force Darwin 17.2, land in Australia, April 28, 2017. This was the first trans-Pacific flight for the Osprey in history. (Marine Corps video by Sgt. Emmanuel Ramos) DARWIN, NT, AUSTRALIA:05.04.2017 Marine Rotational…

F-35s to Bulgaria

05/08/2017
05/08/2017: Two US Air Force F-35A Lightning II aircraft practise air-to-air refuelling before arriving for the first time in Bulgaria. Rumen Radev, President of Bulgaria, is hosting the arrival ceremony. Two US Air Force F-35A Lightning II aircraft from the 34th Fighter Squadron are on temporary deployment to RAF Lakenheath, United…

First Deployment of F-35s to Bulgaria

05/08/2017
05/08/2017: Major Luke Harris – F-35A pilot from the 34th Fighter Squadron, US Air Force. “What makes the F-35 great is the stealth capability, the ability to get to the target undetected by ground and air threats. “And also the fusion, the sensors. So me as a pilot pulls in all…

F-35s to Estonia

05/08/2017
05/08/2017: The latest generation of US fighter jets have started training over continental Europe. The move is part of an effort to reassure NATO Allies amid tensions with Russia.

Two US Air Force F-35 fighter jets have arrived in Estonia. It’s the first time the aircraft has taken part in training over…