B-52 Stratofortess bombers kicked off yet another Bomber Task Force mission May 20, with the first aircraft touching down at RAF Fairford, U.K., the Pentagon said. The appetite for bomber task force exceeds capacity,” the head of Air Force Global Strike Command Gen. Thomas A. ...
Two B-1B bombers have deployed to the vicinity of Middle East conflicts, conducting exercises with the Turkish air force and operating from Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, the Air Force announced April 15.
U.S. Air Force bombers deployed across the globe this past weekend, as two B-52 Stratofortresses landed at Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean on March 22 and two B-1 Lancers landed at Morón Air Base, Spain, on March 24. The pair of ...
A pair of B-1 Lancers flew from Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., to Luleå-Kallax Air Base, Sweden, to start a Bomber Task Force deployment on Feb. 23, marking the latest stop in the Air Force’s effort to showcase the reach of U.S. airpower and strengthen ...
B-52 bombers from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., arrived in Guam on Jan. 30, just a few days ahead of Pacific Air Forces’ largest multilateral exercise, Cope North. The long-range bombers assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing landed at Andersen Air Force Base to take ...
U.S. Air Force B-2 bombers teamed up with the U.K.’s Royal Air Force F-35 Lightning IIs to fly across Europe’s North Sea in a single-day exercise. A KC-135 Stratotanker from the 100th Air Refueling Wing at RAF Mildenhall, U.K., providing air-to-air refueling for the mission. ...
U.S. Air Force B-1 bombers have flown missions over the Middle East three times in the last week and a half—a surge in activity amid widespread unrest in the region. The flights took place Nov. 5, 8, and 13, and U.S. Central Command did not disclose ...
U.S. Air Force bombers have crisscrossed the skies over Europe in recent days, integrating with a host of NATO allies along the way. On Oct. 24, a B-52 from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., conducted a roundtrip flight as part of NATO’s exercise Steadfast Noon. According ...
Multiple B-1B Lancers arrived at RAF Fairford, United Kingdom, on Oct. 12, kicking off a Bomber Task Force deployment amid high tensions across the globe. More than 100 Airmen accompanied the B-1s from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, on the deployment, the first Bomber Task Force ...
An Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber flew deep into the Arctic Circle on Aug. 15 on its way from Iceland to Alaska to participate in the training exercise Red Flag-Alaska 23-3, drawing within a few hundred miles of the North Pole.
The U.S. Air Force’s Bomber Task Forces have become an increasingly important way of reassuring allies who depend on the American nuclear umbrella, as well as a major tool for power projection, the head of America’s strategic forces said Aug. 16. “It seems as though ...
Three B-2 bombers have deployed to Keflavik, Iceland, where they will operate and participate in exercises with other USAF aircraft and air forces of allied and partner countries, the service announced. The deployment is the second of the B-2 to Iceland but the first since ...