The Japanese government has unveiled its plan on how to develop Mage Island, off Kagoshima Prefecture, into a Field Carrier Landing Practice (FCLP) facility for Carrier Air Wing 5 (CVW 5) of the U.S. Navy and Japanese F-35Bs. 663highland / CC BY-SA Tokyo will pay $151 million to the owner of the island and an […]

A Royal Air Force P-8 has completed the first tracking of a Russian warship on Aug. 3. Photo: RAF The maritime patrol aircraft monitored Russian warship, Vasily Bykov, as it transits the North Sea. It was accompanied by Eurofighters from RAF Lossiemouth and A330 Voyager from RAF Brize Norton. For more information, hit the Source […]

Lt. Amy Blades-Langjahr, only female Flying Chief Warrant Officer ever commissioned in the U.S. Navy, has retired. She was the only female in the Flying Chief Warrant Officer program, which ran from 2006 to 2014. The program allows sailors between the paygrades of E-5 and E-7 to be commission as Chief Warrant Officers and become […]