115th FW’s first F-35 is coming together on the production line

Guardsmen from Wisconsin Air National Guard’s 115th Fighter Wing toured Lockheed Martin’s Forth Worth facility recently to see the first F-35A scheduled to be delivered to the unit next year.

Lockheed Martin Fort Worth Texas Photo by Alexander H Groves
Colonel Bart Van Roo
Commander
115th Fighter Wing
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12_12_2022
AF Plant 4
F-35
JSF
Joint Strike Fighter
Charlotte Durham

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The AIM-120 scored its first combat kill on this day 30 years ago

On Dec. 27, 1992, four U.S. Air Force F-16s, led by Lt. Col. Gary North, encountered an Iraqi MiG 25 that crossed into the no-fly zone in southern Iraq. The F-16s trapped the Iraqi aircraft in the no-fly zone, blocking it from escaping to the north. F-16D #90-0778, flow by North, fired an AIM-120A at the Soviet-built fighter and shot it down. The encounter was also the first air combat kill for a U.S. F-16.

Photo: SSGT Andrew Jacobus, USAF

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100 years ago, the first purpose-built aircraft carrier was commissioned into service

IJN Hōshō, the world’s first purpose-built aircraft carrier and Japan’s first aircraft carrier was commissioned into service 100 years ago today.

Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō Tokyo Bay.jpg
By Unknown author – Kure Maritime Museum, Japanese Naval Warship Photo Album: Aircraft carrier and Seaplane carrier, Supervisory editor: Kazushige Todaka, p. 12., Public Domain, Link

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