Tag Archives: U.S. Air Force

According to Defense One U.S. Air Force’s doomsday plane is in the shop for repairs & upgrades. U.S. Air Force’s E-4B Nightwatch, the so-called doomsday plane that would direct American forces during a nuclear war and has served as a mobile Pentagon for defense secretaries. The so-called Doomsday plane — which …

In a Nellis Air Force Base press release U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor Demo Team Announces New Pilot U.S. Air Force Maj. Josh Gunderson takes over as the new F-22 Demonstration Team pilot and commander, Jan. 21, 2020, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. Gunderson, who goes by the callsign “Cabo,” will …

The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is a twin-engine, high performance, all-weather air superiority fighter. First flown in July 1972, the Eagle entered U.S. Air Force inventory in November 1974. It was the first U.S. fighter to have engine thrust greater than the normal weight of the aircraft, allowing it to …

For the first time, the U.S. Air Force used 576th AMXS leverages robotic paint stripping technology on A-10 Thunderbolt II to remove paint from aircraft. The 576th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron is upgrading its traditional manual media blast paint removal process by using new-generation robots to strip the paint from A-10s …

Australians have been battling devastating wildfires since September of last year. More than 13 million acres have burned across the country as firefighters and emergency responders continue to battle the blazes. According to Nellis Air Force press release members of the Royal Australian Air Force and Nellis Air Force Base …

On Jan. 16, 2019 a U.S. Air Force (USAF) F-22 suffered an unspecific issue with its landing gear during routine training at Joint Base Langley-Eustis. The incident happened at about 1 p.m. and the pilot was taken to Joint Base Langley-Eustis Hospital for evaluation and then released with no major …

According to the Popular Science report, In late March of 2019, in a military operating area over Oregon, a student pilot and an instructor were conducting a two-aircraft training mission on basic fighter maneuvers. Each aviator was in their own F-15C jet. It was early afternoon, and the aircraft was at …

The U.S. Air Force is sending six B-52 Stratofortress bombers to Diego Garcia, a military hub that acts as a strategic location for operations in both the Middle East and the Pacific. New satellite imagery, exclusively obtained from Planet Labs, shows two B-52s at the U.S. airbase on Diego Garcia …

Amid fast-rising tensions between the United States and Iran following the former’s assassination of Quds Force commander General Qasem Soleimani, the U.S. Air Force has launched massive exercises for its newest class of combat jet – the F-35A fifth-generation fighter. The U.S. Air Force has announced that the active-duty 388th …

According to Edwards Air Force Base press release, In early February, roughly 80 female pilots gathered together on Edwards Air Force Base, California, to take part in the video filming of an Air Force Recruiting Service commercial. The commercial was made to coincide with the release of the new film …