More than 50 airmen and two HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters of the 56th Rescue Squadron, NAS Keflavik, Iceland, came home Monday after nearly two weeks in Bulgaria, where they demonstrated how to conduct combat search and rescue during Cooperative Key 2005. Many of the 21 allied nations attending the exercise do not have CSAR forces, so the USAF airmen were the center of much attention.
The rate of building B-21 bombers would speed up if the fiscal 2026 defense budget passes. But it remains unclear how much capacity would be added, and whether the Air Force would simply build the bombers faster, or buy more.
