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Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Joseph Dunford declared initial operational capability with the F-35B Friday afternoon, just making the July 2015 plan for declaration, set just over two years ago. In a statement, Dunford, who was just confirmed to be the...

The F-35B turned in “exceptional” performance during a week-long operational readiness inspection last week, but there’s apparently still a parts issue for the jet. Marine Corps air boss Lt. Gen. Jon Davis, in a statement on Friday’s declaration of initial...

After Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 at MCAS Yuma, Ariz., is fully equipped, the Marine Corps will replace Marine Attack Squadron 211’s AV-8Bs in 2016, and will replace VMFA-122’s F/A-18s in 2018. The F-35B also will replace the EA-6B Prowler...

The Marine Corps’ declaring the F-35 operational shows the program is “on track,” Pentagon acquisition, technology, and logistics chief Frank Kendall said in a statement Friday. “This achievement is a testament to the efforts of the F-35 Joint Program Office...

Lockheed Martin, builder of the F-35B, said its newly declared operational status with the Marine Corps “represents a quantum leap in air dominance capability.” Aside from being the first operational supersonic, stealthy STOVL jet, the F-35B has “the most powerful...

Air Force space officials are intimately following SpaceX’s? investigation, overseen by the Federal Aviation Administration, into the explosion of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket back in June, said Space and Missile Systems Center boss Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves. “I have...

The second AC-130J Ghostrider gunship prototype was delivered to Hurlburt Field, Fla., in preparation for initial operational testing and evaluation on July 29, 1st Special Operations Group Det. 2 Commander Lt. Col. Brett DeAngelis told Air Force Magazine. The airframe...

Turkey’s recent decision to join in the air strikes against ISIS and to give the coalition access to Incirlik Air Base will strengthen the campaign against the extremists, said Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Kevin Killea during a video briefing with...

More than 6,600 coalition air strikes have “gone a long way to degrade” the ISIS extremists’ ability to launch large-scale attacks and have enabled Iraqi Security Forces and anti-ISIS fighters in Syria to reclaim more than 5,300 square kilometers of...

Lockheed Martin completed modernization and delivery of the 29th C-5M Super Galaxy earlier this week from its facility at Marietta, Ga., the company announced. The former C-5B, serial number 84-0062 was flown to Stewart ANGB, N.Y., where it will undergo...