The 31st Fighter Wing, Aviano AB, Italy, later this month will deploy some 170 airmen to Turkey to participate in Anatolian Eagle 06/02 with Turkish, French, and Pakistani forces, reports Stars and Stripes. USAF airmen at Incirlik AB, Turkey, also will join in.
The Air Force awarded a $13.08 billion contract to the Sierra Nevada Corporation on April 26 for its Survivable Airborne Operations Center aircraft, the successor to the service’s E-4B “Doomsday” plane. Like the E-4B, officially called the National Airborne Operations Center, the SAOC will be meant to withstand a nuclear attack and keep…