Category: Air Force
Welsh says restarting F-22 line and buying improved F-22 might be cheaper than getting 6th-gen. jet
Outgoing U.S. Air Force chief of staff, Gen. Mark Welsh, has change tune on the subject of restarting the Lockheed Martin F-22 production line.
By United States Air Force [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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NTSB blames USAF, USMC, Air USA for fatal T59 crash at MCAS Yuma
The National Transportation Safety Board has published its investigation into the crash of a BAE Systems Hawk Mk 67 (former RoKAF T59) at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma on Mar. 11, 2015. The aircraft hit a stationary vehicle and killed a Marine inside it.
Photo by Randy Hoeft/Yuma Sun
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RoKAF website got hacked
The Republic of Korea Air Force’s website has been offline since May 12 after administrators discovered that hackers had inserted malicious code into the server.
Two B-52s flew 35-hour mission to drop live bombs in Jordan
For the second consecutive year, U.S. Air Force B-52 bombers flew to Jordan and dropped live bombs during Exercise Eager Lion.
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