Posted on 08/03/2023 4:34:53 AM PDT by nuconvert
The Marines just landed an F-35B Joint Strike Fighter on an old 50-foot-wide highway in Southern California, refueled and rearmed, and took back off again. At this same improvised forward arming and refueling point, a Marine MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor passed over a torpedo to a waiting Navy MH-60R Seahawk helicopter. This was a glimpse of what is to come for future Marine operations in the Pacific, and The War Zone was there to watch all of it unfold.
This week VMX-1 gathered nine squadrons and other units from the Marines, Air Force, and Navy to conduct the latest iteration of a training event known as ‘Obsidian Iceberg.’ The United States Marine Corps knows that in order to win any future conflict in the Indo-Pacific theater they will have to work like never before with the other services, and do so from very austere locales. Preparing to win that conflict and writing the playbook needed for it falls on the shoulders of the Marines of Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron One (VMX-1).
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“However, I do like the F-22”
My favorite : )
#8 Cannot fly the F-35 at least 25 miles from storms where lightning may strike....
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