12 | December | 2020 | Z107.7 FM
Long-range stealth strike fighter jets made history at the Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center last week. Managing editor Tami Roleff tells us how… A section of F-35C combat jets from VMFA 314, a squadron based at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, conducted expeditionary operations December 3 at the Combat Center in Twentynine Palms. The demonstration spanned over 1000 miles and the aircraft was refueled and loaded with ordnance within a half hour. It was also the first time that an F-35C executed an arrested landing on a shortened airfield utilizing the M-31 arresting gear, demonstra...