NAVY LIGHTNING GOES OPERATIONAL

UNITED STATES MISSION-CAPABLE RATES STILL GIVE CAUSE FOR CONCERN VFA-147 ‘Argonauts’ was declared operationally capable with the F-35C at the end of February. US Navy/ CPO Shannon Renfroe THE COMMANDER, NAVAL Air Forces and the US Marine Corps’ deputy commandant for aviation jointly announced on February 28 that US Navy’s F-35C had achieved initial operational capability (IOC) with strike fighter squadron VFA-147. The milestone meant that the ‘Argonauts’ had completed aircraft carrier qualifications aboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), received