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.
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KC-46 Tanker Shows It Can Rapidly Unload Tons Of Fuel To Thirsty Fighters At Austere Airstrips
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.
A Fifth Of The Air Force’s Combat-Coded F-22 Stealth Fighters Are Headed For Guam
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.
B-1B Bomber That Was Just Retired Almost Got Scrapped More Than A Decade Ago
The newly-retired B-1B bomber had already gotten a second lease on life after suffering a major fire on Guam.
Air Force F-35 Stealth Fighters Are Now Operating From Guam’s Austere Airfield
The Agile Combat Employment maneuvers brought F-35s and F-16s to a jungle airstrip in the western Pacific.
Mysterious Drone Incursions Have Occurred Over U.S. THAAD Anti-Ballistic Missile Battery In Guam
It’s yet another reminder of just how vulnerable highly strategic assets, even air defense systems, are to low-end drones.
Airlifters Packed With Paratroopers Just Practiced A Sudden Long-Range Invasion Of Guam
The operation saw Air Force C-17s laden with airborne troops fly thousands of miles across the Pacific to raid Andersen AFB.
B-1B Bomber Brandishes A Belly Full Of Stealth Cruise Missiles While Deployed To Guam
The messaging is abundantly clear: U.S. bombers haven’t tucked-tail and ran from the region and they stand ready to deliver a big stealthy punch.
Proposed Facility Would Drastically Cut Down Time Required To Arm Bombers On Guam
Amid a growing emphasis on security concerns in the Pacific, in general, the Air Force wants to rectify something of a glaring gap in the infrastructure at Andersen Air Force Base on Guam. It lacks facilities to pre-load Common Rotary Launchers for the service’s bombers with cruise missiles and to store them like that so they can be more readily installed on an aircraft as a single unit. Right now, ground crews can only load missiles one at a time onto launchers already installed in the bombers’ bomb bays, a process that can take nearly half a day to complete.
Check Out All The Airpower On Guam For Exercise Cope North In This Exclusive Satellite Image
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.