Category: Air Force
Belgian F-16 crashes, pilot stuck on high-tension wire
A Belgian F-16 crashed in France on Sept. 19 and during the ejection, one of the pilots was stuck on a high-tension wire.
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F-22s from Tyndall AFB are now fully integrated in Alaska
Walk into JB Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska and you might encounter a F-22 with a TY tail code. Seven of those jets relocated from Tyndall Air Force Base are now fully integrated at the base.
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Raytheon demonstrates JPALS to F-35 operators
Representatives from Japan, Netherlands, Italy and U.K. were at NAS Patuxent River to see how Raytheon rapidly set up a Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) to allow F-35Cs to touch down precisely on a designated point on the runway.
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India to take delivery of first Rafale on Oct. 8
Dassault will hand over to India its first Rafale fighter on Oct. 8. The new chief of the Indian Air Force is expected to be at the hand-over ceremony in Merignac.
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By Tim Felce (Airwolfhound) (Rafale – RIAT 2009) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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