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The F-35B is the Marine Corps’ short take-off, vertical landing variant of the famed Joint Strike Fighter. A United States Marine Corps F-35B crashed at approximately 4 p.m. PST on Tuesday after a mid-air collision with a KC-130J tanker aircraft during refueling. The pilot of the F-35B was able to eject from the aircraft and is currently being treated for injuries, according to a Marine Corps press release. The KC-130 made an emergency landing near Thermal Airport in Riverside County. Based on images that have reached social media, it appears that the KC-130 involved in the mishap didn�...

USNI News Nimitz Carrier Strike Group to Return Home from Middle East Deployment December 31, 2020 3:48 PM Vice Adm. Samuel Paparo, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, U.S. 5th Fleet and Combined Maritime Forces, watches the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) from the bridge wing of the coastal patrol ship USS Squall (PC-7) in the Persian Gulf on Nov. 8, 2020. US Navy Photo USS Nimitz (CVN-68) and its carrier strike group will begin transiting from Africa to their West Coast homeports after the acting defense secretary announced today their deployment would be coming to a close...

The Navy Wants to Recruit 450 Warrant Officers to Fly Its New MQ-25 Tanker Drones Boeing conducts MQ-25 deck handling demonstration in January 2018 at its facility in St. Louis, Mo. (Photo courtesy of The Boeing Co.) 22 Dec 2020 The Navy will add hundreds of new warrant officer billets to its ranks over the next decade to fly a carrier-based drone that can refuel other aircraft midflight. Navy Recruiting Command will begin accepting applications in October for warrant officer candidates who want to fly the MQ-25 Stingray, the service's first aircraft carrier-based unmanned aerial vehicle. Off...

Jerod Harris/Getty Images The F-117 first flew in 1981 and fully entered service two years later, but the US Air Force didn't acknowledge the existence of the world's first operational stealth plane until 1988. In 1993, Lockheed approached the US Navy with a proposal for a carrier-based iteration of the famed "stealth fighter," but performance and technology issues kept the F-117N Seahawk from taking flight. The introduction of the F-117 Nighthawk was a watershed moment in military aviation. After years of competing to field faster moving, higher flying aircraft ...

Seahawk: Lockheed’s Plan to Put the F-117 Stealth Fighter on Carriers In 1993, four years after the U.S. Air Force unveiled the Nighthawk to the world, Lockheed approached the U.S. Navy with a proposal for a carrier-based iteration of the famed “stealth fighter.” The introduction of the F-117 Nighthawk was a watershed moment in military aviation. After years of competing to field faster moving, higher flying aircraft that could outrun or out climb enemy air defenses, the Nighthawk adopted a new approach to fighting in contested airspace: stealth. Using the most powerful computers of the...