>https://theaviationist.com/2025/09/12/trapani-f-35/Italy has announced they will open the first OCU F-35 training center outside of the US for international pilots.A sister facility to the PTC at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona for fighter jet training will be established in Sicily at Trapani-Birgi. The chairman of the House Defense Committee, Minardo, said: "The island could become a strategic hub in the Mediterranean, with concrete benefits for the economy and employment."This is the continuation of another agreement between the US and Italy which will see for the first time the US sending its pilots to get their Military Pilot License in Italy at the IFTS in Decimomannu on the MB-346.F-35 keeps winning, Pierre Sprey keeps losing.
It's due to concerns about how many foreign pilots are being reported to and detained by ICE in the US when they venture off-base
>>64255848>The DoD only approved a foreign OCU after being forced to do it due the total fiasco of the Boeing TXPyrrhic victory.
>>64255859>Boeing TXwhat is that?
>>64255859nvm sorry had a brain fart, it's the T-7. Was it really that much of a fuckup?
>>64255862T-7 Red Hawk
>>64255867Still T-X because only the production aircraft will be T-7 and the program hasn't yet reached that phase...
>>64255878whack
