The B-2 bomber is “an excellent platform to strike an enemy’s navy before it can put out to sea,” said Lt. Col. Todd Copeland, director of operations for the 393rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, noting the bomber’s stealth, precision, and heavy payload capability. The unit’s bombers were fresh off a practice run against US Navy ships in Hawaii, reports TSgt. Steven Wilson. The B-2s deployed from Whiteman AFB, Mo. to Andersen AFB, Guam to fill the current strategic presence rotation in the Pacific and had just completed the latest Koa Lightning training run, flying from Guam to Hawaii and back. Col. Damian McCarthy, head of Andersen’s 36th Operations Group, said that most people think of the Air Force’s “stealth bomber taking out strategic, land-based objectives, but our airmen can put ordnance over anything, including enemy naval assets when required.”
A little more than five months after Air Force Special Operations Command briefly stopped flying its CV-22s over a safety issue, an undisclosed number of Ospreys across the service will be grounded once more as maintainers replace old parts associated with the problem. The V-22 Joint Program Office announced the move…