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US Navy/Capt. Cassidy Norman Two US F-35Bs have landed on the Italian Navy aircraft carrier Cavour. In the coming weeks, the pilots and test team will collect data to certify that the ship can conduct carrier operations with Italy's own F-35s. Two specially instrumented US F-35Bs from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 23 (VX-23) at Naval Air Station Patuxent River (NAS Pax River), Maryland, landed aboard Italian aircraft carrier ITS Cavour, off the US East Coast, on March 1, 2021. The flagship of the Marina Militare (Italian Navy) had left Naval Station Norfolk (V...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on February 19, 2021 at 12:42 PM A UH-60 Black Hawk takes off after unloading soldiers during an exercise in Germany. An air assault like this one — with troops wearing IVAS targeting goggles — will be a key part of EDGE21, along with new long-range drones and jamming pods. WASHINGTON: The Army will host an interservice aviation exercise in May to prove its Chief of Staff’s recent claim that the service can bring “speed and range” to future battlefields. Known as EDGE21 — Experimentation Demonstration Gateway Event 2021 – and held at Dugway Provin...

BAE Systems acts as industry lead for Lightning Team UK. BAE Systems announced on 14 January that it will act as on-site industry lead on a support operations contract between the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) and Lockheed Martin in the UK. The two-year contract at RAF Marham is worth about $101 million, with work at RAF Marham including maintenance, mission planning and training services for the RAF and RN Fleet Air Arm F-35B fleet. This extends an existing sustainment service at RAF Marham (home to 21 F-35Bs) and will provide aircraft upgrades, maintenance, synthetic and maintainer traini...

The military and defense contractors have struggled to get the plane in full working order, although improvements have been made over the years.

The $115 million f-35 b, an aircraft like this one crashed. this was in south carolina near the marine corps station in buferred friday. there were no civilian injr.ies. they don't know the causer of the crash being investigated. >> reporter: and a search for somebody who's missing. itter look at this thing. it was carrying faefb people. at first they believed all passengers had been found safely and then they learned there was one person still unaccounted for. >> i thought we landed hard until i looked over and saw the water was coming in and i