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Sgt. Luke McNally, of Marlton, N.J., yells orders to his Marines during a live-fire exercise. The 27-year-old squad leader with Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, led his squad of Marines through the burning fields and smoke-filled air to the end of the range.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Marco Mancha)

Star Wars Weapons coming to a ship near you!

So cool.

First the bad guys are zooming toward your amphib at 40 knots shouting Allah Akbar....

Next thing they know their engine blows up and the skin is burning off their backs....

Ain't Star Wars at sea cool?

Sea-Air Briefs. F/A-18 & V-22.

Massive Hat tip to THINK DEFENCE.  Check out his blog!

Sea Air Space f18 Presentation


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Cpl. Enrique Torres (right), a squad leader with 1st Platoon, Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, and a 21-year-old native of Alvarado, Texas, helps Lance Cpl. Joseph Hevia, a rifleman and 20-year-old native of Windsor, Calif., climb onto a roof while searching a compound with Afghan policemen during Operation Zema Parma Sar Tera (Don’t Tread On Me) here, April 14, 2012. Afghan National Security Forces and ‘America’s Battalion’ Marines are conducting a variety of missions throughout Helmand province’s Garmsir district ahead of the annual fighting season surrounding the harvest of illicit poppy crops.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Reece Lodder)

F-35 BK-1

BREAKING!!! UK SERVICE CHIEFS RECOMMEND CHANGE BACK TO F-35B!!!

MASSIVE HAT TIP TO R. CRICHTON7 (otherwise known as my source in the UK).

via the TIMES.

 David Cameron is due to be presented with what officials believe is an overwhelming case for a change of policy on Britain’s troubled aircraft carrier programme. The Times has learnt that Forces chiefs will unanimously advocate that the Government should abandon plans to buy the conventional carrier version of the American Joint Strike Fighter — the F35C. Instead, a reassessment of the carrier programme will advise…

Just plain.  WOW.

The Brits are confusing me.  This is inexplicable.  Totally surprising.  Semi-insane.

Suffice it to say.  I Don't Get It.

Hmmm. Ok Lockheed. Good one Dew Line.

First.

via the Dew Line.

The United Kingdom's first Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II production jet made its inaugural test flight on 13 April. The aircraft, an F-35B short takeoff/vertical-landing (STOVL) model, flew a series of functional flight checks during the sortie. Lockheed's Bill Gigliotti was at the controls during the 45-minute flight.

Second.

This new guy Dave over at that shop is bringing a very different spin to that blog.  It was once solidly in the Bill Sweetman/Bob Cox/APA bash the F-35 at every occassion whether deserved or not.

He doesn't seem to be part of that coalition.  When news on the F-35 is to be reported, he's on it.  Whether its good or bad.