The USMC has 179 F/A-18C and D Hornets, though not all will by fully modernised. Only aircraft with the most flying life remaining and the right “prerequisite technical directives” are ...

The first practical helicopter wouldn’t be flown until 1939, and the concept wouldn’t have a reliable military application until the Korean War—well after fixed-wing aircraft had already broken the ...

The contract covers maintenance for both rotary and fixed-wing platforms, ensuring operational readiness for some of the Marine Corps' most critical aircraft. At MCAS Futenma, Okinawa, S&K will ...

(Lance Cpl. Hannah Hollerud/Marine Corps) The Marines recently landed their first fixed wing aircraft on a recertified airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu, which jarheads captured after ...

(Image credit: USMC/Chief Warrant Officer 2 Trent Randolph) The idea is basically to lend the exquisite kinetic and non-kinetic capabilities of fixed-wing aircraft to rotary-wing craft, according ...