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The Maintenance and Finishing facility as RAF Marham © Crown Copyright Signed by Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Joint Program Office, the Lightning Air system National Capability Enterprise (LANCE) contract will provide additional expertise on aircraft maintenance, bespoke UK training courses for pilots, groundcrew and engineers, and logistical and technical support for the fleet. Providing additional experienced technical personnel at existing facilities, the contract will also allow three new capabilities to come into operation. These include an ejection seat maintenance workshop, a ...

Published: 11:18 AM January 7, 2021    F35 Lightning jets at RAF Marham will be equipped with a new missile which can hit its target from 85 miles away - Credit: Ian Burt Norfolk's Lightning Force is being equipped with a new missile which can hit its target from 85 miles away. A £550m contract has been signed for new missiles to increase the firepower of the RAF Marham-based F35 jet, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced. Spear3 (Selective Precision Effects at Range Capability 3), a "next-generation" missile, will become the primary air-to-ground weapon for the RAF over the next de...

9 men nabbed for trying to sell over a million narcotic pills in UAE Photo courtesy: Twitter The Sharjah Police identified the suspects in 12 hours. A gang of nine Asian men who were planning to sell more than a million narcotic pills in the country had been arrested in Sharjah. In an operation called ‘Lightning Force’, the group was caught with a massive haul of the controlled anti-anxiety drug Xanax that was worth more than Dh15 million, the Sharjah Police said. 15 Lt-Col Majed Al Asam, director of the Sharjah Police’s anti-narcotics department, said the operation was carried...