U.S. Air Force Trains With Japan’s US-2 Flying Boat As It Looks Forward To Its Own Amphibious Plane
Airmen got a close look at Japan’s US-2 Flying Boat’s Capabilities during Cope North drills near Guam.
Airmen got a close look at Japan’s US-2 Flying Boat’s Capabilities during Cope North drills near Guam.
For the first time ever, a U.S. Air Force KC-46A Pegasus aerial refueling tanker has taken part in a “dual defuel” operation at an austere location.
The Hercules took to the road in Wyoming recently as the Air Force increasingly embraces austere basing operations.
We have seen USAF highway exercises in Europe and the Pacific, and now they are coming closer to home.
The Air Force recently tested a new landing and take-off capability that could allow the MQ-9 to self deploy to a much wider range of locales.
Dozens of F-22s will take part in a large exercise to demonstrate the Air Force’s ability to project combat airpower into the Pacific.
For the first time, the Air Force’s F-15Es have worked as weapons transports, delivering guided bombs to forward operating locations.
The Agile Combat Employment maneuvers brought F-35s and F-16s to a jungle airstrip in the western Pacific.
The threat of losing its runways in the Pacific theater to ballistic missile barrages has accelerated the USAF’s austere basing initiatives.
The B-2s flew direct from the U.S. to the remote outpost in the Indian Ocean and have already executed missions over Asia.