F-22 damaged during touch-and-go nearing end of six-year repair job

A F-22, # 02-4037, was badly damaged when it failed to lift off during a touch-and-go at Tyndall Air Force base in 2012. The jet will soon be servicable again next March after a six-year repair job.

Raptor F-22 27th
By Technical Sergeant Ben Bloker (USAF) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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U.S. Air Force completes delivery of 24 F-16s to Indonesia

The U.S. Air Force announced on Dec. 6 that the Ogden Air Logistics Complex has completed regeneration work on the last six F-16C Block 25s for Indonesia.

Lt. Col. Beau “Strap” Wilkins, 514th Flight Test Squadron F-16 test pilot, makes a high speed pass in an Indonesian F-16C Fighting Falcon at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, on Nov. 21 during a functional check flight on the aircraft. This is the 24th F-16 to receive a complete refurbishment at the Ogden Air Logistics Complex as part of a foreign military sales contract with the Indonesian government.  (U.S. Air Force photo by Alex R. Lloyd)
Lt. Col. Beau “Strap” Wilkins, 514th Flight Test Squadron F-16 test pilot, makes a high speed pass in an Indonesian F-16C Fighting Falcon at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, on Nov. 21 during a functional check flight on the aircraft. This is the 24th F-16 to receive a complete refurbishment at the Ogden Air Logistics Complex as part of a foreign military sales contract with the Indonesian government. (U.S. Air Force photo by Alex R. Lloyd)

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USN skippers aren’t sure on the full capabilities of their ship’s weapon systems

One of the invited speakers at the Defense Forum Washington conference on Dec. 4 was former Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work. Work cautioned that current U.S. Navy skippers are not fully aware of the capabilities of their ship’s weapon systems due to lack of training.

US Navy 090730-N-XXXXX-001 The Aegis-class destroyer USS Hopper (DDG 70) launches a standard missile (SM) 3 Blk IA
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