US Navy Declares Initial Operational Capability for Aircraft Landing System Written 27 May 2021

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US Navy Declares Initial Operational Capability for Aircraft Landing System

F-35 carrier landing. | Credit: U.S. Navy; Wikimedia Commons; Public Domain

ExecutiveGov reports that the US Navy has announced that Raytheon Technologies’ Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) has achieved initial operational capability (IOC). The system, “designed to guide aircraft landing on naval carriers and amphibious assault ships,” and “can now help F-35C units land on nuclear aircraft carriers in any weather condition.” The IOC declaration “results from a long series of developmental work that commenced in 2008 and comes almost a year earlier than scheduled.”
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