Australia has carried its first air strike in Iraq with a RAAF F/A-18F dropping two precision-guided bombs on a ISIL facility.
Day: October 9, 2014
USAF taking over space shuttle hangars to house X-37Bs
Two former space shuttle processing hangars at Kennedy Space Center are now under the ownership of the U.S. Air Force for the X-37B program.
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SwAF Gripen goes supersonic to intercept Russia aircraft
A Swedish Air Force Gripen fighter went supersonic to intercept a Russian aircraft over the Baltic Sea on Oct. 7.
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Meet USN’s equivalent of Skunk Works: AIRWorks
The U.S. Navy now has an advance projects group modeled on Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works and Boeing’s Phantom Works.
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USAF F-15D crash in U.K.
The U.S. Air Force lost an F-15D when one came down in a field off Broad Gate, Weston Hills, Britain on Oct. 8. Pictures of the crash site in the source.
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