USAF air assets continued their support of Pakistani earthquake relief operations. A C-130 and one contracted B-747 airlifted more than 133,000 pounds of aircraft parts, turbine engines, tents, and other supplies to assist the Pakistani government. So far, the Air Force has flown in more than six million pounds of relief supplies.
RTX’s Raytheon unit was able to “significantly” extend the range of the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile using mostly software changes in experimental tests last year, expanding the reach and lethality of the standard U.S. dogfighting weapon, company officials said Sept. 15.
