A few years after retiring to the Boneyard, a B-1B Lancer is coming back to life to replace another bomber that was catastrophically damaged at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. The 7th Bomb Wing announced the B-1 “regeneration” in a March 18 release, marking the first ...
After more than 40 years of performing around the world, the Air Force A-10C Demonstration Team announced that 2024 will be its final season.
Nearly 48 years after the A-10 Thunderbolt II first arrived at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., the base started its long transition to a new mission set by retiring its first attack jet. Built in 1982, tail number 82-648 taxied out of the 354th Fighter ...
The Air Force officially unveiled plans Aug. 2 for its 492nd Power Projection Wing that will replace the A-10 mission at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. The new Air Force Special Operations Command wing will consist of units relocated from around the country, all under the ...
The 414th Combat Training Squadron hosted a training session at the San Xavier Underground Mining Laboratory in Arizona to prepare Air Force PJs for the challenges of rescuing patients in dark, cramped, and dangerous confined spaces.
If Congress agrees with the Air Force’s request to retire 32 Block 20 F-22s as part of its fiscal 2024 budget, the aircraft be used as trainers a while longer, then stored for an undetermined period at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base’s Aerospace Maintenance and ...
The planned Special Operations “Power Projection Wing” at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., will include MC-130s, AC-130s, and “light attack” aircraft, Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. told Congress on April 27. The new mix of Air Force Special Operations Command aircraft will replace ...
The Air Force has begun to retire its A-10 Thunderbolt IIs. An A-10 from the 74th Fighter Squadron at Moody Air Force Base, Ga, arrived at the Boneyard on April 5, the service said. The aircraft is the first of 21 A-10s that will be ...
Aug. 30 marks the one-year anniversary of the end of Operation Allies Refuge (OAR), the final act in the longest war in U.S. history. Historians will long study the United States’ post-9/11 Global War on Terrorism and, in particular, the failed, two-decade effort to plant ...
The Air Force is looking to revamp the way it trains Airmen for information warfare with the establishment of a new wing-level organization. The Information Warfare Training and Research Initiative Detachment, known as Det. 1, stood up by Air Combat Command in a March 22 ...
The Air Force wants to move A-10s and HH-60s to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., and create close air support and rescue “Centers of Excellence” at the base if it gets the greenlight from Congress to retire 42 Warthogs. The aircraft and related units would ...
The Air Force’s plan to cut 42 A-10s but retain the bulk of its fleet is an acceptable amount of risk and necessary as the military looks ahead to more survivable capabilities, said Gen. Mark A. Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The ...