F-35s And F-16s Set To Operate From Austere Jungle Airfield During Major Exercise On Guam
The threat of losing its runways in the Pacific theater to ballistic missile barrages has accelerated the USAF’s austere basing initiatives.
The threat of losing its runways in the Pacific theater to ballistic missile barrages has accelerated the USAF’s austere basing initiatives.
With the threat of China rising, the Pentagon is looking for new airfields and to expand existing ones for distributed operations in the Pacific.
Australian, Japanese and U.S. forces combine to demonstrate an impressive show of integrated air and sea power in the tense Pacific.
In a dramatic shift in policy and regional posture, the Air Force has ended its uninterrupted rotation of bombers to the island.
One of the biggest air combat exercises is underway at Andersen Air Force Base on the island of Guam and it even looks impressive from space.
Being able to lay entire minefields with pinpoint accuracy from high altitude, over 40 miles away, and on a single pass is a total game changer.
Amid escalating tensions with North Korea, the B-52s join B-1B and B-2A bombers already forward deployed to the Pacific island outpost.
If the bombers do touch down at Andersen AFB in Guam it’ll be the first time all three USAF heavy bombers will be there at once since August of 2016.
Not everything is a sign of an impending preemptive strike against North Korea or some “show of force” meant to keep Pyongyang in check.
The B-1 will bring America’s heaviest-hitting conventional air-to-ground capability to the Pacific Theatre.