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The United Kingdom has 48 Lockheed Martin F-35B fighters under contract for delivery and is looking into the buy of another 26 to bring the U.K. inventory

Marine Corps says it has known about the hard clutch issue for 12 years, and is trained on how to respond to the failure.

The Marine Corps continues to fly its MV-22 Ospreys despite the Air Force grounding its fleet of CV-22s over a mechanical issue with the tiltrotor aircraft.

The Air Force and the Marines are staking out different positions on whether it's safe for their crews to fly the Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, known as the CV-22 in the Air Force and the MV-22 in the Marine Corps.

The U.S. Marine Corps has no immediate plan to ground its fleet of MV-22 Osprey aircraft, service officials said following news that Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) had grounded its fleet of CV-22 aircraft due to safety investigations into the aircraft’s clutch.

The Air Force Special Operations Command has grounded its fleet of CV-22 Ospreys over a mechanical problem that first surfaced in 2017.

Air Force Special Operations Command grounded its entire CV-22 Osprey fleet following incidents involving the aircraft's clutch, according to officials.

The Navy and Marine Corps will keep their Ospreys flying after the Air Force grounded its fleet of the tilt-rotor aircraft. Both services said they are keeping an eye on a clutch issue that led the Air Force to halt operations for the CV-22 Ospreys flown by Air Force Special Operations Command. “All Navy CMV-22 […]

AFSOC Commander Lt. Gen. Jim Slife ordered the safety standdown on Tuesday in the wake of two safety incidents that had occurred over the past six weeks, with a total of four such events occurring since 2017, AFSOC said.

The U.S. Air Force has grounded all 52 of its CV-22 Osprey aircraft indefinitely after two safety incidents occurred in the past six weeks, Air Force Special Operations Command officials said Wednesday.