An airman assigned to the 19th Aerospace Medicine Squadron at Kadena AB, Japan, was killed during a scuba diving accident off the island of Okinawa, according to an Oct. 22 release. TSgt. Jason McIlvaine, 42, was diving near Serakaki Village,...
Lockheed Martin and the Turkish company Roketsan, Inc. announced Wednesday they have partnered to develop a new long-range, air-breathing stealth cruise missile capable of being carried internally on the F-35 and externally on other aircraft. It is called the SOM-J,...
Air National Guard C-130s rotated to the Aviation Detachment at Powidz AB, Poland, for the first time to begin exercises with the Polish air force this month, according to an Air Force release. Three C-130Hs from the Illinois ANG’s 182nd...
Northrop Grumman filed an official protest with the Government Accountability Office on Tuesday over the Air Force’s award of its next generation Three Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar system earlier this month, halting any work on the project by winning contractor...
Exercise Silver Flag, an event designed to improve civil engineer and support airmen for expeditionary base operations, has been reestablished at Andersen AFB, Guam. The 554th RED HORSE Squadron Det. 1 opened up the new site, which will host the...
The first weapons load team certified on the F-35A strike fighter completed training at Eglin AFB, Fla., scratching off an initial operating capability requirement for the F-35, officials announced. “Before us, there was no weapons capability” for the F-35A, said...
The last of eight C-130Hs arrived at Bradley ANGB in East Granby, Conn., last week, completing the Air National Guard’s 103rd Airlift Wing’s conversion from the Learjet C-21, unit officials announced. “We are now inextricably tied to the tactical airlift...
Team members at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex recently completed a successful test of a Pratt & Whitney F135 conventional takeoff and landing/carrier variant (CTOL/CV) engine at Arnold AFB, Tenn. “One reason this test was significant is that it was...
