Aviation News
After a long and difficult endeavor, the land-based variant of the F-35 has been declared combat ready by the U.S. Air Force’s Air Combat Command (ACC) on Aug. 2.
By U.S. Air Force photo by Jim Haseltine [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Alaska Airlines Flight 80 was flying from Anchorage to Seattle on Aug. 1 when the airliner chance upon the U.S. Navy Blue Angels carrying out a mid-air refueling near Yakutat.
Maj. Gen. John Rossi was suppose to take command of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command at Redstone Arsenal. However, he passed away on Jul. 31 on the installation.
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A recent exercise in Russia’s Western Military District saw S-300 and S-400 air defense systems stationed in Leningrad and Moscow regions repelled simulated air strikes carried out by 12 MiG-29SMT fighters.
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The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has approved the production engineering phase of its B61-12 nuclear warhead life extension program (LEP).
Photo: NNSA
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