Airmen from 
Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, joined fellow airmen at Kadena AB, Japan, and Navy and Marine Corps crews who gathered at Kadena on Aug. 7 for the third Joint Air and Sea Exercise 2005. Exercise participants include Kadena’s KC-135s, HH-60G Pave Hawks, E-3 AWACS, and the Navy’s USS Kitty Hawk Carrier Strike Group.
The Pentagon’s top research lab is interested in developing a hypersonic cruise missile prototype that provides “a revolutionary leap in operational performance,” as the first wave of U.S. hypersonic weapons enters production and service.