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190th Fighter Squadron won three team awards for Hawgsmoke 2021

Posted on April 22, 2021April 22, 2021 by alert5

The 190th Fighter Squadron has emerged as the overall winner for Hawgsmoke 2021, a biannual A-10 competition, at Moody Air Force Base.

Idaho National Guard A-10 Thunderbolt II pilots and their crews come home to Boise as the 2021 Hawgsmoke Overall Team champions. The Hawgsmoke is a biennial aerial competition where approximately 150 Airmen from 13 Air Force units compete in a competition designed to test the bombing, missile and tactical gunnery skills of the pilots and maintainers of the U.S. Air Force A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft. This year it was held at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, from April 14-17 and Idaho won the Top Overall Team. Idaho will then host the next one, tentatively scheduled for late spring of 2023. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Becky Vanshur)

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STRATCOM: DF-41 became operational last year

Posted on April 22, 2021April 22, 2021 by alert5

In his statement to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Adm. Charles A. Richard said China’s DF-41 nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) became operational last year.

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Downwash from USAF CV-22 blew away rubber matting of hospital’s landing pad

Posted on April 22, 2021April 22, 2021 by alert5

A U.S. Air Force CV-22 was undergoing a medical transfer training at Addenbrooke Hospital in Cambridge, Britain on Apr. 21 and the downwash during takeoff blew away the rubber matting of the hospital’s helicopter landing pad.

Second F-15EX to arrive at Eglin AFB

Posted on April 21, 2021April 21, 2021 by alert5

A second F-15EX has arrive at Eglin Air Force Base and the aircraft will be flown by the 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron.

U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt Savanah Bray
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Greece could buy another 6 Rafales

Posted on April 21, 2021April 21, 2021 by alert5

Greek newspaper Proto Thema says Athens could buy another six Rafale fighters from France to increase the fleet size from 18 to 24.

By Tim Felce (Airwolfhound) (Rafale – RIAT 2009) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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