The opening of the North Carolina airfield follows the service’s June recertification of an airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu.
Marine fighter pilots now have a missile that can strike targets up to 230 miles away, keeping aviators out of the range of many air defense systems.
The crash was the first reported loss of a Western-supplied F-16 in Ukraine, where they arrived at the end of July.
The F-35s and Ospreys are slated to replace F/A-18 Super Hornets and C-2A Greyhounds, respectively.
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