The Marine Corps is moving toward an all-F-35 tactical fleet as it phases out legacy Hornet and Harrier aircraft.

The Marines are expected to retire their final remaining F/A-18 aircraft by 2030, fully replacing them with the F-35 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Marine Corps is shifting its F-35 purchase plans to buy more carrier-based F-35Cs and fewer F-35Bs, which can hover and ...

WASHINGTON ― Marine aviation planners are looking beyond vertical takeoff aircraft, such as the AV-8 Harrier jet or the MV-22 Osprey, and instead looking at how to fit aviation support to the fighting ...

Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 163 (Reinforced), 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, watch as MV-22B Ospreys take off from the flight deck of the USS Makin Island during Amphibious Squadron ...

A U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier II flies during operations. The Marine Corps will retire the iconic jump jet next month, ending more than four decades of service. The U.S. Marine Corps is preparing ...

U.S. Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 163 (Reinforced), 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, prepare to remove an engine from an MV-22 Osprey on the USS Makin Island (LHD 8) Dec. 27, 2016. US ...

An MV-22B Osprey approaches the amphibious assault ship Wasp in the Philippine Sea on Jan. 23, 2019. (Gunnery Sgt. T. T. Parish/U.S. Marine Corps) U.S. Marine Corps ...

The search effort for a missing Marine F-35B has located a debris field, but it is not clear whether it is the crash site of the aircraft, a defense official told Task & Purpose on Monday. The debris ...

PENTAGON — The Navy and Marine Corps should explore ways to make Marine aircraft a more useful part of the naval battle force – using alternate mixes of aircraft types on amphibious ship flight decks, ...

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When Marine Lieutenant Alfred A. Cunningham reported to the U.S. Naval Academy for flight training on May 22, 1912, the date celebrated as the birth of Marine aviation, he didn’t start out with the ...