Tag: US Air Force
US Air Force awards $22.2m contract for new handguns
The US Air Force's combat arms units are getting new and improved 9mm caliber handguns as a replacement for the M9 pistols...
US Air Force orders improved Mach V body armor for female...
The US Air Force's Life Cycle Management Center Female Fitment Program Office has awarded a contract for the production and development of...
US Raptors intercept Russian bombers for second time in six days
US Air Force F-22 Raptors completed another series of intercepts of Russian Tu-95 bombers off Alaska on June 16, in the second...
StormBreaker smart bomb passes Super Hornet test ahead of IOC milestone
Raytheon Missiles & Defense announced that it has completed the first guided release of a StormBreaker smart bomb from an F/A-18E/F Super...
US Air Force F-15C crashes in North Sea
A US Air Force F-15C Eagle fighter jet from the 48th Fighter Wing crashed in the North Sea in the morning hours...
US Senate confirms first black Air Force chief of staff in...
The US Senate confirmed Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. to be the 22nd Air Force chief of staff with a historic, unanimous...
US Air Force’s F-15E demonstrates compatibility with new nuclear bomb design
The US Air Force’s F-15E Strike Eagle jet fighter became the first aircraft to be certified with the mock B61-12 nuclear gravity...
US Air Force deploys Global Hawks to Japan
The US Pacific Air Forces carried out a rotation of RQ-4 Global Hawks to Yokota Air Base, Japan, on May 30.
US Air Force’s new combat search & rescue helicopter flies with...
The US Air Force's newest helicopter, the HH-60W Jolly Green II combat search and rescue helicopter, has reached another milestone on its...
SNC delivers first modified MC-130J to US Air Force Special Operations...
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) announced it has delivered the first MC-130J equipped with the advanced airborne mission networking (AbMN) secure communications suite...
