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For the first time ever, t<\/span>The Marine Corps\u2019 F-35B is taking part in the Air Force\u2019s premier air-to-air combat training\u00a0combat <\/span>exercise for the first time ever, Red Flag<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The joint strike fighters from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 are participating taking part <\/span>in Exercise Red Flag the exercise<\/span>, which began on July 11 and runs until July 29 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the training event At Red Flag<\/span>, Marine Corps and Air Force pilots will train to <\/span>go up against the most sophisticated enemy aircraft, air defense systems and cyber threats that they would encounter if the U.S. went to war with a near-peer rival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Today, there are roughly 10 integrated air defense systems in the world that you would have a difficult time operating in or around in aircraft,” the Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh said in December. “By 10 years from now, there will probably be 25 or so. Those things are in places that we have to plan to operate in and around.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Marine Corps variant of the F-35 can both take off and land vertically, allowing it to operate from much smaller runways than other aircraft. At recent airshows in Britain, the F-35B demonstrated how it can come to a dead stop in mid-air and hover to the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The simulated aerial engagements at Red Flag are not expected to include combat within the pilots\u2019 visual range, said 2nd Lt. Casey Littesy, a spokeswoman for the 3rd Marine Aircraft wWing. The exercise <\/span>will focus on flight safety and finding the best uses for all the tools available to pilots rather than three-dimensional maneuvering, said\u00a02nd Lt. Casey Littesy, a spokeswoman for the 3rd Marine Aircraft\u00a0w<\/span>Wing.\u00a0she said.<\/span>\u00a0The Moreover, <\/span>F-35’s have <\/span>long-range sensors and weapons make ing <\/span>it unlikely that the aircraft will have to engage in within visual-range air-to-air combat, she Littesy <\/span>said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It is always possible that the F-35B could face a situation that puts it in visual range; therefore, pilots must continue to train to maneuver the jet at the edges of its operational envelope in order to obtain a positional advantage,” Littesy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The F-35B made its first transatlantic flight June 29, 2016. Three F-35\u2019s flew from MCAS Beaufort in South Carolina and landed at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, England. They were assisted by two KC-10\u2019s, and refueled 15 times over the Atlantic. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Brian Burdett\/Released)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The F-35B made its first transatlantic flight June 29. Three F-35’s flew from Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort in South Carolina and landed in Gloucestershire, England, where they will participate in air shows before returning to the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo Credit: Cpl. Brian Burdett\/Marine Corps<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, the Marine Corps plans to purchase 353 F-35Bs, and 67 F-35Cs, which have tail hooks that allow them to land on aircraft carrier. The 420 aircraft Joint Strike Fighters <\/span>will replace the Marine Corps’ aging F\/A-18 Hornets, EA-6B Prowlers and AV-8B Harrier II jets by fiscal 2032.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Marine Corps’ variant of the F-35 can\u00a0both\u00a0<\/span>take off and land vertically, allowing it to operate from much smaller runways than other aircraft. At recent airshows in Britain, the F-35B demonstrated how it can come to a dead stop in mid-air and hover to the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The F-35B\u2019s participation ng <\/span>in Red Flag is a major step forward for the program, said Jesse Sloman, an analyst for the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments think tank in Washington, D.C<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although F-35Bs have flown the Marine Corps Weapons and Tactics Instructors course, the equivalent of the Navy\u2019s TOPGUN school, Red Flag includes a wider variety of missions an aircraft participating<\/span>, Sloman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One drawback the F-35B continues to deal with is that the planes are still using the interim Block 2B software, which limits the aircraft’s sensors and restricts the weapons it can carry to AIM-120 missiles and\u00a0certain laser- and GPS-guided bombs, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

“The Corps is scheduled to upgrade the F-35B to its full warfighting capability in 2017 with the introduction of the Block 3F software, which will expand the aircraft’s weapons, sensor, and avionics capabilities,” Sloman said. “Until that occurs, Marine F-35s will be severely limited in the missions they can perform.”\u00a0 and should be considered \u2018operational\u2019 in name only despite their participation in major exercises like Red Flag.”<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Marine Corps feels that is an unfair criticism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“To make a comment that the F-35 is operational in name only is to use a definition of operational that does not exist in the Marine Corps vernacular,” said Guy Vallhonrat the F-35B program manager for headquarters Marine Corps aviation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Guy Vallhonrat,\u00a0the F-35B program manager for headquarters Marine Corps aviation, said the aircraft\u00a0The F-35B <\/span>can already conduct every operational mission that the Marine Corps\u2019 Hornets and Harriers are flying todayVallhonrat said<\/span>. Marine pilots have called the F-35B the best tactical aircraft they\u2019ve ever flown, adding they did not want to go back to flying older aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It is true that 3F the capabilities of the aircraft will expand significantly, and the Marine Corps is looking forward to expanding the scope and numbers of missions available,” Vallhonrat said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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