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US Navy Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 3 return to USS Eisenhower for carrier qualifications

Squadrons assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 3 flew aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) Sept. 9, for carrier qualifications as part of Tailored Ship’s Training Availability/Final Evalu... Read More...

UK F-35B Lightning jets train with USAF B-2A stealth bombers

A Bomber Task Force deployment of B-2A Spirit stealth bomber aircraft, Airmen and support equipment from the 509th Bomb Wing, Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, have arrived in the U.S. European Command area of... Read More...

Exercise Cobra Warrior 2019 Eurofighter Luftwaffe

Exercise Cobra Warrior starts in UK

Aircraft from the German, Italian and Israeli Air Forces have arrived at RAF Waddington to participate in Exercise Cobra Warrior. They will join aircraft from the Royal Air Force and United States Air Force in... Read More...

US F-35B FRCE Fleet Readiness Center East

New F-35 modification facility brings strategic capability to Fleet Readiness Center East

A recently-completed facility will bring a new strategic capability to Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE) and the F-35B Lightning aircraft line next year. FRCE is the lead site for depot-level maintenance on th... Read More...

Boeing opens state-of-the-art V-22 Osprey production facility

Boeing investment accommodates V-22 fuselage production and MV-22 modification program and allows Ospreys to be delivered with higher quality, efficiency and improved safety

Boeing with the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy celebrated the transformation of a 350,000-square-foot facility outside Philadelphia into a modern factory where company employees will build fuse... Read More...

Michigan ANG 127th Wing A-10 Thunderbolt II returns from Afghanistan combat deployment

More than 200 Airmen of the 127th Wing returned home from a combat tour in Afghanistan with their A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft. Deployed to the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, Selfridge operators, ... Read More...

Operation Rapid Forge 2019 concluded July 25 at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany

The 10-day operation helped ensure U.S. forces’ ability to fulfill the European Deterrence Initiative, a policy to assure and defend NATO allies, while promoting deterrence in an increasingly complex security e... Read More...

XQ-58A Valkyrie UAV demonstrator completes second successful flight

After the inaugural flight on March 5, 2019 the XQ-58A Valkyrie demonstrator, a low-cost unmanned air vehicle, successfully completed all test objectives, during a 71-minute second successful flight on June 11,... Read More...

Misawa AFB Block-50 F-16 Fightning Falcon hits 10000 flight hours

One of Misawa Air Base’s most famous flightline assets hit a historic milestone June 10. A 29-year-old Block-50 F-16 Fighting Falcon, tail number 808 and affectionately known as “BOB,” reached 10,000 ... Read More...

US Air Force exercise Northern Edge 2019

Alaska: exercise Northern Edge 2019

Approximately 10,000 U.S. military personnel will participate in exercise Northern Edge 2019, a joint training exercise hosted by U.S. Pacific Air Forces, scheduled for May 13-24, 2019 on and above central Alas... Read More...

US Air Force is reactivating 65th Aggressor Squadron with F-35A

The Air Force is reactivating the 65th Aggressor Squadron and moving 11 F-35A Lightning IIs to Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, as part of a larger initiative to improve training for fifth generation fighter airc... Read More...

Hill AFB fighter wings conduct combat exercise with more than 40 aircraft

The active duty 388th Fighter Wing and Reserve 419th FW conducted an integrated combat capability exercise April 30-May 2 at the Utah Test and Training Range. The friendly and enemy forces were made up of F-35 ... Read More...

USS Abraham Lincoln CVN-72 and its Carrier Strike Group enters european theater

The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group (CSG) commenced operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations April 8, continuing support to coalition theater security cooperation efforts in the region. The s... Read More...

USS Wasp with a big load of F-35B arrive in the Philippines for exercise Balikatan 2019

The amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1), with embarked Marines from Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force (SPMAGTF) 4, led by 4th Marine Regiment, arrived in Subic Bay on March 30, 2019, in preparat... Read More...

USAF MQ-1B and MQ-9 flight hours hit 4 million

The US Air Force MQ-1B Predator and MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft reached a historic flight hour milestone March 1. The Predator and Reaper have now been flown more than 4 million hours in support of a ... Read More...

Exercise Cope North 2019

The exercise scenario for the final week of COPE North 2019 evolved from a humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operation to combat air operations after an aggressive nation downed a friendly aircraft. T... Read More...

First flight for the XQ-58A Valkyrie demonstrator

The XQ-58A Valkyrie demonstrator, a long-range, high subsonic unmanned air vehicle completed its inaugural flight March 5, 2019, at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona. The Air Force Research Laboratory partnered with... Read More...

USAF new block 50 Ground Control Station flies MQ-9 Reaper

The U.S. Air Force’s new Block 50 Ground Control Station (GCS) – developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) – for the first time controlled an MQ-9 Reaper® on January 8th from the GA-ASI G... Read More...

US Navy F-35C achieved the Initial Operational Capability

The Commander, Naval Air Forces and the U.S. Marine Corps Deputy Commandant for Aviation jointly announced that the aircraft carrier variant of the Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35C Lightning II, met all requirem... Read More...

US Air Force CENTCOM: JADEX Joint Air Defense Exercise 19-01

Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of U.S. Central Command worked together with regional partners to conduct Joint Air Defense Exercise 19-01, a regularly scheduled three day-long training event focused on increasin... Read More...

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