Col. Gail Wojtowicz, the Air Force’s division chief for future concepts and transformation, is leading a three-day war game exercise to test the service’s abilities in the year 2025. (DR, 10/03/05) Wojtowicz told Reuters that 100 researchers and other officials are taking part in the desktop exercise, examining Air Force ability to respond to homeland threats, terrorism, and combat proliferation of nuclear arms and fighting two conventional wars simultaneously. The wargamers get an added wrinkle—tackle these scenarios in a gaunt budget environment. Now, that is realism.
KC-46’s Refueling Boom Damaged While Refueling F-22s
July 8, 2025
A U.S. Air Force KC-46 tanker suffered damage to its boom while refueling F-22 Raptors off the coast of Virginia on July 8, Air & Space Forces Magazine has confirmed, with reported radio communication from the crew indicating the boom “detached.”