US European Command hosted a Russian delegation of officers from the Russian Ministry of Defense and the Russian General Staff at its Stuttgart, Germany, headquarters recently. It was the first of four scheduled meetings this year. This first of four such meetings to be held this year produced an outline for military cooperation through 2009, according to EUCOM officials. The Russian delegation also visited the US Air Forces in Europe headquarters at Ramstein Air Base to pursue expanding the collaboration of US and Russian Air Forces.
The B-21 Raider stealth bomber was recently flown, for the first time, by an operational pilot as part of its flight test process, the Air Force said June 11. And a top Pentagon official said the move to bring operational testing into the B-21 process earlier than normal shows the…