Pacific Air Forces has launched the second Red Flag-Alaska of the year at Eielson Air Force Base, where more than 1,400 military personnel from the US, Australia, and Singapore have arrived for the two-week exercise. The first one of the three planned for this year took place in April and the final one is slated for July.
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.
