Fully Mission Capable News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Elephant walks are more closely associated with the Air Force. But the USMC’s VMAT 501 conducted the impressive 20 F-35B elephant walk.

F-35A Lightning II test aircraft assigned to the 31st Test Evaluation Squadron from Edwards Air Force Base, California, released AIM-120 AMRAAM and AIM-9X missiles at QF-16 targets during a live-fire test over an Air Force range in the Gulf of Mexico on June 12, 2018. The Joint Operational Test Team conducted the missions as part of Block 3F Initial Operational Test and Evaluation.

Pentagon and Lockheed Martin heads should roll over F-35 disgrace Print this article I disagree with Rep. Adam Smith on nuclear deterrence policy. But when it comes to the F-35 joint strike fighter jet program, the House Armed Services Committee chairman is dead on the money. Speaking on Friday, Smith described the F-35 program as a "failure on a massive freaking scale." He's right. The F-35 program is a masterpiece of government mismanagement, corporate arrogance, and strategic failure. U.S. security requires heavy defense investment, but it must be wise investment. Politely put, the F-35 p...