Airmen currently assigned to NAS Keflavik, Iceland, recently got a visit from a US Air Forces in Europe assignments team to sort out their fates following the announcement that the US was pulling American forces out of the facility. The team fielded questions on potential assignments and family situations, but it could not yet provide a date for the cessation of Air Force operations. All plans, said USAFE officials, await an execute order from the Chief of Staff.
The KC-Z4, a blended wing body tanker concept being developed by startup JetZero, could fuel larger groups of aircraft at longer range to hold more targets at risk, company officials say.