The U.S. Marine Corps will field the ATAWS on its F/A-18 Legacy Hornet fleet starting in early 2026. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division has announced on Nov. 19, 2025, that the U.S. Marine ...

U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet crew-members conduct flight operations at Anderson Air Force Base on Guam in June 2019. Unit - Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 232 (VMFA-232), "Red Devils", ...

To contextualize the achievement, 12 million flight hours translates into almost 1,370 years, or 500,000 days, of non-stop flying. The F/A-18 Hornet—the main fighter jet platform operated by both the ...

The Marine Corps’ F-35B iteration is certainly the most complex mechanically of the three Lightning II models. The US Marine Corps’ (USMC) specialized Joint Strike Fighter variant is quickly becoming ...

U.S. Navy F/A-18s evaluated the Automatic Terrain Awareness and Warning System at sea and over desert terrain in California. Credit: Katie Archibald/U.S. Navy The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, along ...

Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 242 (VMFA-242), an F-35B Lightning II squadron, is currently participating in joint exercises with partner nations in the Indo-Pacific. Earlier this week, F-35B ...

Textron subsidiary Airborne Tactical Advantage Company, or ATAC, has won a task order from the U.S. Marine Corps to support the service’s F-35 stealth strike fighter flight training. The task order, ...