AMC Is Hauling in Helicopters and More: Air Mobility Command officials say command airlifters will be transporting 24 Army CH-47 Chinook helicopters to aid relief efforts in Pakistan. Stateside airlifters already have flown in contingency response airmen to set up bare-base airfield operations and some 200,000 pounds of supplies and equipment.
‘Angry Kitten’ EW Pod Tested on Search-and-Rescue HC-130
April 17, 2026
The Air Force recently tested its “Angry Kitten” electronic warfare pod on an HC-130J during Exercise Bamboo Shield, showing the pod can turn the rescue platform into a command-and-control node and protect it from enemy radars.The tests follow what could be the pod’s first use in combat after it was…