Marine Corps

The U.S. Marine Corps has no immediate plan to ground its fleet of MV-22 Osprey aircraft, service officials said following news that Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) had grounded its fleet of CV-22 aircraft due to safety investigations into the aircraft’s clutch.

An Air Force MQ-9 was refueled on the ground by a Marine MV-22 Osprey, marking the first time an MQ-9 received fuel from a joint platform.

F-35 prices continue to climb; officials look to rein in cost.

Marine Corps pilots landed 20 F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters on the deck of the USS Tripoli (LHA-7) this week, marking the largest number of the jump jets loaded onto a U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship. The aircraft landings are part of an ongoing joint Navy and Marine Corps exercise underway in the Pacific […]

U.S. Marine Corps units have deployed to Lithuania. The deployment of a Marine Air Control Group to Lithuania comes as the Corps repositions F/A-18C Hornets and KC-130J Hercules to Poland, according to U.S. Air Forces in Europe.

The U.S. Marine Corps has identified four Marines killed when a MV-22B Osprey went down during NATO cold weather training exercise in Norway Friday evening. The incident, which occurred while the tiltrotor aircraft and crew were participating in Exercise Cold Response 2022, is now under investigation by U.S. military and Norwegian officials.  “The pilots and […]

Norwegian search and rescue located the wreckage of the U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B that went down during a NATO cold weather exercise Friday night, the Corps said.