The Department of Defense has restricted the operations of a subset of V-22 Ospreys due to safety concerns relating to the aircraft’s input quill assembly. DOD did not disclose how many V-22s
MoreCol. Matthew Kelly, formerly MV-22 military lead for the V-22 Osprey program, has assumed leadership of the V-22 Joint Program Office within the Naval Air Systems Command and succeeded former program manager Col.
MoreThe U.S. military looks to resume mid-air refueling training exercises in Japan in January after drills were suspended due to a crash landing in early December, NHK reported Thursday. U.S. told Japan that it would
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The U.S. Navy has set up a detachment at a Marine Corps air station in New River, North Carolina, to help train crews and maintenance staff on the CMV-22B Osprey aircraft, Seapower magazine reported
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The U.S. Navy has conducted a fleet battle experiment on its variant of the V-22 Osprey aircraft to gauge the platform’s performance as replacement for the C-2A Greyhound carrier on-board delivery platform. The service branch
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The House Armed Services Committee voted 60-2 Thursday to pass a $583 billion defense policy bill, Defense News reported Thursday. Joe Gould writes HASCâs version of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act would shift
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Australia and Japan have started efforts to build up their amphibious forces in support of their deterrence strategies amid Chinaâs aggression in the South China Sea, Breaking Defense reported Friday. Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
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Vice Adm. Mike Shoemaker, commander of Naval Air Forces, has said the service branch expects its air carrier-based F-35C fighter jets to be operational in 2018 and plans to increase its number of
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The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps have demonstrated new military vehicles at the 2014 Sea-Air-Space Exposition held last week at National Harbor, Md., Federal News Radio reported Friday. Michael O’Connell writes the
MoreNavy Secretary Ray Mabus has said that since “sequestration looms over everything,” the Navy stands to experience delays and lose savings from multi-year procurement, according to an AOL Defense article. During a House Armed
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