Boeing’s Troubled New KC-46 Pegasus Tanker Just Flew Across The Pacific Ocean To Japan
Just as yet another target delivery date may be emerging, the KC-46 has hopped across the Pacific to visit its first export customer.
Just as yet another target delivery date may be emerging, the KC-46 has hopped across the Pacific to visit its first export customer.
The region is notorious for rapid changes in weather conditions, frigid temps, rough seas, high winds...and Russian submarines.
The boats would be a key part of the service's plans to revitalize its anti-submarine capabilities, but at a price of more than $5 billion each.
Although far from new, the ships would offer Ukraine a huge and desperately needed boost in naval capabilities.
The Canadians have already spent more than a decade working to identify a replacement for their aging Halifax-class frigates.
The bizarre and tragic incident is jarring, but what comes next could have dramatic implications on an entire region.
Canceling exercises could help negotiations with the North moving forward, but also could hurt the readiness of US and South Korean forces.
The Japanese are rushing to develop the weapons amid concerns about increasing Chinese encroachment on their territorial claims.
The attack is both devastating and embarrassing for the Afghan and U.S. governments, who insist the insurgents are losing the initiative.
The swap meant the missile monitoring mission went ahead as planned, but it forced the service to delay another intelligence-gathering sortie.
Members of the California Air National Guard's 144th Fighter Wing were in Ukraine for the first time ever to train when the accident happened.
The United States sends these weapons to allies and uses them for its own purposes, but is tired of relying on foreign suppliers.
The jet had been taking part in the Clear Sky 2018 multi-national training exercise which included F-15C/Ds from the California Air National Guard.
The revelations expose a worrying new dimension to the conflict in Yemen and could have consequences outside that country.
Now the service already wants to double that range and get the guns hitting targets out to 80 miles.
The news comes after the Chinese Air Force revealed a new logo showing the silhouette of an unknown flying-wing-type aircraft.
Word of the bomber's developmental progress comes amid a growing rift between the Chinese and American governments.
With no crew, no one would be able to fix critical systems if they broke and important work related to the station would come grinding to a halt.
First Man is an unconventional film about an unconventional hero and like the rockets of the era, it adds up to far more than the sum of its parts.
Concerns about Russian and Chinese threats have pushed the services to work together to try to get the weapon operational in two years.