Posted on Jan 26, 2017
John McCain's Plan Calls for More Mini-Aircraft Carriers. Here's What He's Talking About.
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Definitely like the all-options approach. Makes good sense. A good article on the America class amphibious assault ship.
John McCain's Plan Calls for More Mini-Aircraft Carriers. Here's What He's Talking About.
Posted from popularmechanics.com
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Good article and with the continuation of the F-35 VTOL, Osprey, and new LCAC program multipurpose amphibs like this will be able to respond to most crisis.
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LCDR (Join to see) they need to correct the landing gear issue on the 35 first (& who knows what else they'll find wrong with it after that...).
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SSgt (Join to see) - I am not sure what you are referring to the The U.S. Marine Corps' F-35B aircraft reached initial operational capability (IOC) on July 31, 2015 one of the first variants to declare full world wide deployment capability. Just this month they permanently stationed a squadron, VMFA-121, in Japan. No mention of any landing gear issue when Lt. Col. J. T. Bardo, the commanding officer emerged from his aircraft.
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LCDR (Join to see) - perhaps it's just the navy version that they found issues in the landng gear.
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SSgt (Join to see) - I think you are right the C variant is still having some issues and I do remember reading about the gear. Just about every carrier based aircraft has had gear and underbelly issues.
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