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An officer with the U.S. Air Force’s 28th Bomb Squadron revealed that B-1 crews have been training to use the AGM-158 JASSM in the Pacific theater.
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Sean O’Keefe, CEO of EADS North America, said his company could opt out of the U.S. Air Force competition to replace its HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter unless the rules of the competition is revamped.
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Boeing is looking into delivering the KC-46A to international customers as early as 2018.
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Capt. Kyle Alderman, a U.S. Air Force C-130J pilot, hacked into the software of the aircraft and created a consolidated moving map that pulls data from multiple map displays.
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The U.S. Air Force has released photos from the C-130 crash in South Dakota on Jul. 1 that killed four airmen.
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