USAF transport aircraft carry some 3,200 US soldiers to Honduras for Exercise Golden Pheasant, responding to a Honduran government request after Honduras experiences an incursion of Sandinista forces from Nicaragua.
The Pentagon awarded a contract worth over $2 billion for the next batch of F-35 engines to Pratt & Whitney on June 5. The deal for Lot 17 F135 engines, totaling $2.02 billion, is expected to be completed by December 2025.