A B-1B Lancer from Ellsworth Air Force Base flew from South Dakota to the Pacific and back earlier this week, integrating with Japanese F-15s and linking up with a KC-135 tanker along the way. The long-duration, roundtrip mission, referred to as a CONUS-to-CONUS mission, involved one ...
The U.S. and partner nations delivered supplies from the sky in December, concluding the 71st iteration of Operation Christmas Drop on Dec. 13 after over a week of airdrops of more than 75,000 pounds of supplies to remote islands in the western Pacific. The exercise ...
American nuclear-capable bombers and U.S. and South Korean stealth fighters flew exercises in the skies around the Korean Peninsula on Dec. 20—the latest joint show of force by the allies after recent North Korean tests of missiles and a claimed spy satellite. B-52 Stratofortresses from ...
The Air Force will begin its 71st annual Operation Christmas Drop on Dec. 4. The weeklong exercise is a yearly tradition that delivers supplies such as food, fishing equipment, school books, and clothes to remote islands in the Pacific. It is the longest-running Department of ...
As part of Air & Space Forces Magazine’s commemoration of the Air Force’s 75th anniversary, we interviewed all of the living former Chiefs of Staff. In this part of the series, we feature CSAF No. 21 Gen. David L. Goldfein.
The U.S. is "clearly committed" to its plans to significantly improve its missile defense of Guam, a senior defense official said, expanding on a key theme of the recently released Missile Defense Review. The U.S. territory in the Western Pacific is a major U.S. military ...
The U.S. and South Korea agreed to extend their air exercises hours after North Korea continued its barrage of missile tests, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III announced Nov. 3 in a joint press conference with his South Korean counterpart. The decision to extend ...
Fighters, tankers, airlifters, and ISR aircraft from every U.S. Air Force base in South Korea and Japan are flying in Exercise Vigilant Storm, the large joint aerial training event between the U.S. and South Korea happening this week—even as North Korea fires off record numbers ...
Exercise Vigilant Storm, a large joint aerial training event between the U.S. and South Korea, kicked off Oct. 31 with U.S. Air Force fourth-generation fighters flying alongside F-35s from the U.S. Marine Corps and Republic of Korea Air Force. All told, approximately 240 aircraft and ...
A-10 “Warthogs” from the 23rd Wing at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., deployed to Guam and will take part in a Pacific Air Forces exercise to demonstrate the command’s ability to rapidly generate air power in support of the island chain of Palau by coordinating ...
An undisclosed number of B-1B Lancers arrived at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, on Oct. 18 for a bomber task force mission in the Indo-Pacific. The B-1B crews from the 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., will take part in “several” training ...
Retired Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Jim Roy moderated a discussion on "ACE and Enlisted Leadership" with the Command Chief Master Sergeants of U.S. Air Forces in Europe Benjamin Hedden; Air Mobility Command Brian Kruzelnick; Air Combat Command John Storm; and Pacific Air ...