Combat aircraft
VMFA-211 is stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, in Arizona. The local authorities say this area enjoys the most hours of ...
big-deck carrier-optimized variant being developed primarily for the Navy. As things stand, the Marines will purchase 353 F-35Bs ...
Right top: Most day-to-day operations see the F-35Bs ying conventional approaches to Yuma. Right: The F-35B has an in- ight r ...
UNIT REPORT | VMFA-211 http://www.combataircraft.net January 2018 44 40-51 VMFA-211 C.indd 44 23/11/2017 11:52 ...
Left page: While F-35B maintainer numbers are healthy, pilot manning is a major concern for the Marine Corps. Above: Operational ...
Top: ‘Wake 12’ holds formation on a VMGR-352 KC-130J in October. Above: The three US services have sought to establish a baselin ...
small adjustments. Ultimately, you’re looking to pull up to a hover abeam the port side of the ship in daylight. At night you’re ...
a lot of switch-outs because of wear and tear and it meant we were having to regularly replace them, and they were in short supp ...
There are two significant events in the history of the ‘Wake Island Avengers’ that underline, perhaps, the true ethos of the US ...
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F-35B Lightning IIs of VMFA-211 ‘Wake Island Avengers’ from MCAS Yuma, Arizona. Jamie Hunter 40-51 VMFA-211 C.indd 51 23/11/2017 ...
Even three years later — when the definitive prototypes were spotted and four of the fighters entered flight-testing — many stil ...
generation’ type is equivalent to a Western ‘fifth-generation’ fighter. In the same way that the 2016 announcement that China’s ...
on November 29, and nally ‘2015’ on December 19. As of early 2015, many observers were expecting additional aircraft to this i ...
sensors have been installed. The latest aircraft display two flush hexagonal- shaped side fuel/air heat exchangers in order to r ...
Russian engine but also of the use of the Chinese WS-10. A few observers were even con dent that a mysterious WS-15 prototype h ...
reportedly with regular detachments for weapons testing with the FTTC at Dingxin. These trials have so far included external loa ...
two are apparently in the new ‘tactical’ light gray scheme with low-visibility markings, two wear a striking, all-new splinter s ...
Several reports indicate that the J-20A took part in its rst such exercise in November 2016, during the ‘Red Sword 2016’, and ...
There are very few places as hostile and challenging to y in as the Arctic. From April to August each year, the New York Air N ...
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